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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: gykati@cs.elte.hu
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs psychiatrist
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:11:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhcf0lw8j.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0803202007080.24825@neumann.cs.elte.hu> (gykati@cs.elte.hu's message of "Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:21:40 +0100 (CET)")

>    I studied Emacs psychiatrist, and I think that behind
> the program there is a vivid person (or persons?).
> Is it so? I simply couldn't understand how one person could
> reply to so many persons, who decided to use the program
> Emacs psychiatrist.

>    Is the Emacs psychiatrist a real psychiatrist? Or do you
> work on artificial intelligent and it is a very complex program?
> (I don't think so...) I just started to interest in computers,
> and anyway I found this program is very humorous.

Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't prescribe any
drug), just a psychoanalyst.
You may want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

>    Another problem is that sending mails by Emacs doesn't work on my
> computer.  Could you fix it?

Have you asked M-x doctor?
More seriously, we can't help you if you don't give us more information
about what you tried to do and what happened.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20 19:21 Emacs psychiatrist gykati
2008-03-20 22:31 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.9277.1206052394.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-20 23:05   ` Peter Tury
2008-03-21  8:04     ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-21  1:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-03-21  1:17   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found] <mailman.9275.1206051538.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-20 22:31 ` Joost Diepenmaat

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