annotate etc/DEVEL.HUMOR @ 108251:275d802c8570

Extract common suffix for * in partial-completion. * minibuffer.el (completion--sreverse, completion--common-suffix): New functions. (completion-pcm--merge-completions): Extract common suffix when safe.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Wed, 05 May 2010 22:59:07 -0400
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1 ---------------- -*- mode: text; coding: utf-8; fill-column: 70 -*- --
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2 -- --
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3 -- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list --
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4 -- --
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5 -- The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this file, --
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6 -- compiled from the public emacs-devel mailing list. --
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10 "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of
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11 zero?"
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12 "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely
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13 invalid for an interval to have zero length."
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14 -- Miles Bader and RMS
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18 Re: lost argument and doc string
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20 I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-).
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21 -- RMS
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25 "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an
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26 adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather
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27 than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general
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28 temperament."
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29 "Mine does."
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30 -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii
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34 "In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an
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35 item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just
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36 thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer,
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37 blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in."
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38 "How about dancing elephants?"
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39 "They don't fit in my office."
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40 "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much...
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41 bigger."
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42 -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann
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46 I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles
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47 and mile-stones?).
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48 -- Kai Grossjohann
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51
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52 "I think it depends on video drivers. I cannot reproduce it on my
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53 home PC, but I can at work."
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54 "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need
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55 a homearound at home. ;-)"
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56 -- Jason Rumney and RMS
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60 By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem.
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61 Sometimes I think I should have opposed to the introduction of such a
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62 concept more strongly.
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63
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64 imagine there's no unibyte
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65 it's easy if you try
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66 no bytes below us
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67 above us only chars
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68 imagine all the people living in multibyte
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70 -- Kenichi Handa
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74 I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American,
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75 but every year I get less and less help from the United States.
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76 -- RMS
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80 "If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, then it
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81 doesn't make sense to follow it."
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82 "Nevertheless, until now, we always did."
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83 "So.... should we not fix old bugs?"
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84 "Why fix an old bug if you can write three new ones in the same
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85 time?"
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86 -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup
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90 [...] As is well known, people who speak American English tend to
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91 be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits
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92 transferring those redundant "u"s.
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93 Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the
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94 Emacs tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be
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95 downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived, ...that's a substantial
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96 saving.
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97 -- Stefan Monnier
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101 Re: Parent of a derived mode's keymap.
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102
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103 "I can't decide whether the title of this thread is more fitting for
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104 a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama."
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105 "Hey, it says derived, not deprived."
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106 "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better."
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107 "I knew it! You're one of them vi lovers! There is nothing wrong
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108 with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!"
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109 -- David Kastrup and Lute Kamstra
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113 "Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?"
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114 "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers,
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115 this is a variable concept ;-)"
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116 -- Juanma Barranquero and Thien-Thi Nguyen
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120 "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction."
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121 "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means
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122 'obsolete'."
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123 "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with
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124 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of
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125 course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might
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126 have escaped John's notice."
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130
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131 Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
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132
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133 "Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear
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134 also for people not familiar with `woman'."
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135 "Most hackers, I take?
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136 For a moment there I thought you had a patch that you could put on
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137 a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point
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138 without attempting any course of action that requires an advance
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139 course in divination.
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140 There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
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141 -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
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142
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144
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145 "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
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146 this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
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147 "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do
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148 you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?"
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149 "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
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150 -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
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154 "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
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155 decrease readability. It's a tossup."
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156 "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
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157 j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
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158 readable?
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159 Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
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160 serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
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161 synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
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162 -- RMS and David Kastrup
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163
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165
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166 Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango
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167
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168 "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?"
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169 "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time."
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170 "Isn't it already?"
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171 "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is
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172 still out about that end of time thing."
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173 -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup
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174
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177 "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such
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178 constants with anything like the universality of e and pi."
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179 "42"
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180 -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen
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184 "[...] So please do not delete anything."
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185 "Done."
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186 -- RMS and David Kastrup
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190 "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the
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191 printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer
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192 drivers?"
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193 "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of
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194 depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I
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195 wouldn't worry about it too much."
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196 -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney