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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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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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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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101 Re: Parent of a derived mode's keymap. |
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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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115 this is a variable concept ;-)" |
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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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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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146 this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]" |
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149 "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P" |
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168 "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?" | |
169 "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time." | |
170 "Isn't it already?" | |
171 "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is | |
172 still out about that end of time thing." | |
173 -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup | |
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177 "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such | |
178 constants with anything like the universality of e and pi." | |
179 "42" | |
180 -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen | |
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184 "[...] So please do not delete anything." | |
185 "Done." | |
186 -- RMS and David Kastrup | |
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190 "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the | |
191 printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer | |
192 drivers?" | |
193 "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of | |
87899 | 194 depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I |
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