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7 "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of |
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8 zero?" |
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9 "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely |
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10 invalid for an interval to have zero length." |
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11 -- Miles Bader and RMS |
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15 Re: lost argument and doc string |
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17 I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-). |
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18 -- RMS |
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22 "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an |
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23 adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather |
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24 than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general |
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25 temperament." |
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26 "Mine does." |
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27 -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii |
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31 "In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an |
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32 item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just |
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33 thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, |
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34 blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in." |
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35 "How about dancing elephants?" |
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36 "They don't fit in my office." |
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37 "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much... |
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38 bigger." |
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39 -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann |
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43 I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles |
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44 and mile-stones?). |
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45 -- Kai Grossjohann |
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49 "I think it depends on video drivers. I cannot reproduce it on my |
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50 home PC, but I can at work." |
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51 "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need |
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52 a homearound at home. ;-)" |
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53 -- Jason Rumney and RMS |
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57 By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem. |
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58 Sometimes I think I should have opposed to the introduction of such a |
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59 concept more strongly. |
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61 imagine there's no unibyte |
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62 it's easy if you try |
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63 no bytes below us |
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64 above us only chars |
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65 imagine all the people living in multibyte |
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67 -- Kenichi Handa |
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71 I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American, |
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72 but every year I get less and less help from the United States. |
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73 -- RMS |
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77 "If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, then it |
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78 doesn't make sense to follow it." |
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79 "Nevertheless, until now, we always did." |
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80 "So.... should we not fix old bugs?" |
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81 "Why fix an old bug if you can write three new ones in the same |
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82 time?" |
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83 -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup |
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87 [...] As is well known, people who speak American English tend to |
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88 be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits |
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89 transferring those redundant "u"s. |
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90 Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the |
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91 Emacs tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be |
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92 downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived, ...that's a substantial |
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93 saving. |
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94 -- Stefan Monnier |
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98 Re: Parent of a derived mode's keymap. |
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100 "I can't decide whether the title of this thread is more fitting for |
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101 a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama." |
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102 "Hey, it says derived, not deprived." |
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103 "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better." |
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104 "I knew it! You're one of them vi lovers! There is nothing wrong |
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105 with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!" |
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106 -- David Kastrup and Lute Kamstra |
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110 "Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?" |
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111 "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers, |
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112 this is a variable concept ;-)" |
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113 -- Juanma Barranquero and Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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117 "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction." |
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118 "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means |
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119 'obsolete'." |
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120 "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with |
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121 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of |
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122 course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might |
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123 have escaped John's notice." |
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124 -- David Kastrup and RMS |
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128 Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point) |
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130 "Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear |
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131 also for people not familiar with `woman'." |
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132 "Most hackers, I take? |
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133 For a moment there I thought you had a patch that you could put on |
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134 a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point |
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135 without attempting any course of action that requires an advance |
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136 course in divination. |
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137 There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." |
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138 -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup |
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142 "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for |
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143 this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]" |
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144 "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do |
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145 you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?" |
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146 "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P" |
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147 -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier |
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152 decrease readability. It's a tossup." |
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153 "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have |
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156 Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with |
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157 serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as |
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158 synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?" |
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165 "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?" | |
166 "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time." | |
167 "Isn't it already?" | |
168 "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is | |
169 still out about that end of time thing." | |
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