From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Great Old One? Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:24:00 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140107222400.GA31328@thyrsus.com> References: <3096922F-ACE6-4D70-BDB9-F6110FF8C62A@gmail.com> <87a9f7poq0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389133485 6310 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2014 22:24:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 07 23:24:53 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0f4t-0001pH-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:24:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0f4t-00005C-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44863) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0f4m-0008T7-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0f4h-0004gJ-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:24:44 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:55035 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0f4a-0004de-Aj; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0548381025; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:24:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a9f7poq0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167681 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > Emacs _is_ one of the old great ones. You are trying to make Gandalf > more popular by plucking his nose hairs. I could not help reading that as "Emacs is one of the Great Old Ones" It's...all so obvious now. The keystrokes, the barbarous keystrokes! Ctrl-Alt-Double-Bucky-PENTAGRAM (U+26E4) - what are these but invocations of Emacsthulhu who lies sleeping beneath 545 Tech Square, until the dread day when the stars align and he rises to claim his dominion? -- Eric S. Raymond