From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alastair Houghton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:25:19 +0100 Message-ID: <3CAE40EE-271C-40B0-B45F-C7141F44984F@alastairs-place.net> References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150284345 27729 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 11:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 13:25:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTVA-0004Og-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:25:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTVA-0000Gh-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTV0-0000FP-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTUy-0000DL-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:25:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTUy-0000D9-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.159.14.212] (helo=ptb-relay01.plus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqTe6-0004fx-9q; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.162.110.205] (helo=[10.0.1.5]) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1FqTUt-0006iz-Me; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:25:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55885 Archived-At: On 13 Jun 2006, at 23:21, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > Alastair Houghton writes: > >> I do have a sneaking suspicion that [...] > >> If you can find an instance where I haven't been polite, >> then I will happily apologise for it. > > there is no real need for politeness, nor apologies. > likewise, there is no real need for sneaking suspicion. Well I certainly think that people should be polite to one another. However, from the perspective of Emacs, I suppose you are right. > for example, you may think i "represent" FSF saying these > things, Not quite in the sense you seem to have understood, but then you are not asking for an explanation or arguing about it, and I (like you, it seems) would rather get back to the issue of the patch. > to make evaluating the patch easier, please repost the > latest version using "diff -c". Of course. I've just done so. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://www.alastairs-place.net