Timeline for Are questions about feature requests on topic?
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| Oct 1, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | elemakil |
Only if neither is the case I'll submit a feature request or bug report. More importantly, I think that newcomers can learn a great deal from the answers posted as solutions to questions that could well be a feature request. It is one of the rare chances to analyse a contained snippet of elisp code and be able to directly interact with its auther. If, eventually, there is no posted answer and the question evolved into something worthy of a feature request, the OP should be encouraged to file that request, inlclude the link in her question and add an update once its solved.
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| Oct 1, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | elemakil | It is true that it should not be encouraged to move "customer support" to StackExchange. However, I think it is important to recognise that often times a simple question was not originally indended to be a feature request or a bug report (maybe the OP did not recognise that her problem was a bug or that the functionality she is looking for is a completely new feature). Emacs is well-known for its customisability and thus for me the first logical step is to ask whether someone knows a solution or has created a snippet solving my problem. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 18:55 | history | answered | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |