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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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20 I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-).
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25 "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an
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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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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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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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53 home PC, but I can at work."
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55 a homearound at home. ;-)"
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60 By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem.
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74 I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American,
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83 "So.... should we not fix old bugs?"
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106 "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better."
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108 with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!"
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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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124 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of
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