Mercurial > emacs
changeset 103210:406d47634d58
Remove mention of obsolete president.
author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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date | Tue, 12 May 2009 04:16:56 +0000 |
parents | 4dfd4779e45a |
children | 1f6f69dc0ba0 |
files | doc/emacs/misc.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi Tue May 12 04:12:27 2009 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi Tue May 12 04:16:56 2009 +0000 @@ -2713,16 +2713,14 @@ @samp{*Dissociation*} buffer for you to copy elsewhere if you wish. @cindex presidentagon - Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in the -buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather than -gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the end of -one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the next. -That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to jump -to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon' -and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'.@footnote{This -dissociword actually appeared during the Vietnam War, when it was very -appropriate. Bush has made it appropriate again.} Long sample texts -produce the best results. + Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in +the buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather +than gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the +end of one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the +next. That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to +jump to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in +`pentagon' and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'. Long +sample texts produce the best results. @cindex againformation A positive argument to @kbd{M-x dissociated-press} tells it to operate