Re: [External] : Re: apropos for packages [was: plz -> curl?]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "adam@alphapapa.net" <adam@alphapapa.net>,
>         "luangruo@yahoo.com"
>       <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
>         "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>, "rms@gnu.org"
>       <rms@gnu.org>,
>         "philipk@posteo.net" <philipk@posteo.net>,
>         "mardani29@yahoo.es" <mardani29@yahoo.es>,
>         "emacs-devel@gnu.org"
>       <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 18:04:25 +0000
> 
> > >   With C-u prefix, or if ‘apropos-do-all’ is non-nil,
> > >   it searches all currently defined documentation
> > >   strings.
> > >
> > > For example, `C-u C-h d backtrace' doesn't show an
> > > entry for package `backtrace', even though the pkg
> > > doc string mentions "backtrace".  (Emacs 27.2)
> > 
> > You are taking that text out of its context.  The doc
> > string _really_ says this:
> > 
> >   Show symbols whose documentation contains matches for PATTERN.
> 
> It also _really_ says what I wrote.  I'm not making
> anything up, so please don't insinuate that.
> 
> Yes, I recognize that the doc in question is that
> provided by `describe-package' - it's not technically
> a doc string for the package.
> 
> > And now we understand why you don't see the package 
> > backtrace.el: it's because it is not a symbol.
> 
> If you want to quibble, fine.

I hereby refuse to talk to you anymore until such time as you learn to
talk in a civilized manner.  This isn't the first time, nor the second
or the third.  It's a constant attitude, and no amount of pointing
this fact to you helps you change your ways.

Shame on you!