;;; emacsbug.el --- command to report Emacs bugs to appropriate mailing list
-;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: K. Shane Hartman
;; Maintainer: FSF
;;; Commentary:
-;; `M-x report-emacs-bug ' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers
+;; `M-x report-emacs-bug' starts an email note to the Emacs maintainers
;; describing a problem. Here's how it's done...
;;; Code:
(defvar report-emacs-bug-orig-text nil
"The automatically-created initial text of bug report.")
+(defvar report-emacs-bug-text-prompt nil
+ "The automatically-created initial prompt of bug report.")
+
(defcustom report-emacs-bug-no-confirmation nil
"*If non-nil, suppress the confirmations asked for the sake of novice users."
:group 'emacsbug
;; If there are four numbers in emacs-version, this is a pretest
;; version.
(let ((pretest-p (string-match "\\..*\\..*\\." emacs-version))
- user-point message-end-point)
+ user-point prompt-beg-point message-end-point)
(setq message-end-point
- (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*")
+ (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Messages*")
(point-max-marker)))
(compose-mail (if pretest-p
report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
(delete-region (point) (point-max))
(insert signature)
(backward-char (length signature)))
+ (setq prompt-beg-point (point))
(unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
;; Insert warnings for novice users.
(insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n")
(let ((pos (point)))
(insert "English")
(put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight))
- (insert ", because the Emacs maintainers do not have
-translators to read other languages for them.\n\n")
+ (insert " if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
+usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.\n\n")
(insert (format "Your bug report will be posted to the %s mailing list"
(if pretest-p
report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
(insert ".\n\n")
(insert ",\nand to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.\n\n")))
+ (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
+ "and the precise symptoms of the bug:")
+ (setq report-emacs-bug-text-prompt
+ (buffer-substring prompt-beg-point (point)))
+
+ (insert "\n\n")
+ (setq user-point (point))
+ (insert "\n\n\n")
+
(insert "In " (emacs-version) "\n")
(if (and system-configuration-options
(not (equal system-configuration-options "")))
(insert "configured using `configure "
- system-configuration-options "'\n"))
+ system-configuration-options "'\n\n"))
(insert "Important settings:\n")
(mapcar
'(lambda (var)
(insert (format " default-enable-multibyte-characters: %s\n"
default-enable-multibyte-characters))
(insert "\n")
- (insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
- "and the precise symptoms of the bug:\n\n")
- (setq user-point (point))
- (insert "\n\n\n"
- "Recent input:\n")
+ (insert "Recent input:\n")
(let ((before-keys (point)))
(insert (mapconcat (lambda (key)
(if (or (integerp key)
(defun report-emacs-bug-hook ()
(save-excursion
- (goto-char (point-max))
- (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
- (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min))
- (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
- (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))
- report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
- (error "No text entered in bug report"))
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char (point-max))
+ (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
+ (if (and (= (- (point) (point-min))
+ (length report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
+ (equal (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))
+ report-emacs-bug-orig-text))
+ (error "No text entered in bug report")))
;; Check the buffer contents and reject non-English letters.
(save-excursion
please insert the proper e-mail address after \"To: \",
and send the mail again using \\[mail-send-and-exit].")))
(error "M-x report-emacs-bug was cancelled, please read *Bug Help* buffer"))
- ))
+
+ ;; Unclutter
+ (mail-text)
+ (if (looking-at report-emacs-bug-text-prompt)
+ (replace-match "Symptoms:"))))
(provide 'emacsbug)