From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb 5 09:46:17 2004 Subject: Re: XEmacs octave mode (font lock problem) From: "John W. Eaton" To: Victor Munoz Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel , Help-Octave List , debian-user Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:43:31 -0600 On 5-Feb-2004, Victor Munoz wrote: | Reading the bug report, I noticed the reported refered to a question | I posted to the debian-user list, so I'm glad somone else noticed | the problem as well, and the bug was solved (so I should have filed | the bug report myself then!). It seems to me that bugs are rarely fixed if they are not reported to the people who can actually fix them. So if you complain about Octave bugs somewhere other than the Octave lists, it is much less likely that someone who can fix the problem will notice. Presumably, if you are having a problem and it persists for some time (several releases or snapshots) then chances are good that other people are not noticing your problem, or they don't think it is a problem. jwe ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------