From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: ecbrown@ericcbrown.com, enometh@meer.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 9b762c35a1: Add Sefirot to Omer counting
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 05:31:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkw6t8y2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1noCfh-0002lu-P6@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 09 May 2022 19:20:09 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: ecbrown@ericcbrown.com, enometh@meer.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 19:20:09 -0400
>
> > > The biblical references for the Parashat HaShavua and its Haftorah are
> > > definitely religious in nature.
>
> > And the Hebrew calendar itself isn't?
>
> It has to do with religion to some extent, but the crucial thing is
> that it is a calendar. It consists of names of days.
I think it consists of much more than that.
> > The proposal was NOT to cite those texts in Emacs, the proposal was
> > just to _name_ them.
>
> I think we're using the word "cite" with two different meanings, both
> valid. We're talking about including in Emacs the names of certain biblical
> texts, right?
>
> Where do we draw the line?
>
> The natural place would be between
> (1) identifications/names of specific days, and
> (2) specific things some groups customarily DO on specific named days.
> The first is part of the calendar; the second is an adjunct used with
> the calendar.
That'd mean any holiday should be excluded, since holidays almost
always are "specific things some groups customarily DO on specific
named days".
I think this is too radical a criterion.
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2022-04-28 16:38 ` master 9b762c35a1: Add Sefirot to Omer counting Stefan Monnier
2022-04-28 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-28 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-04 8:27 ` Madhu
2022-05-05 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-05 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 23:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-07 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 14:16 ` Madhu
2022-05-07 23:08 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-08 5:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-08 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-09 2:24 ` Madhu
2022-05-09 11:34 ` Eric Brown
2022-05-09 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-09 14:41 ` Eric Brown
2022-05-09 14:52 ` Eric Brown
2022-05-09 18:53 ` Sam Steingold
2022-05-09 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-10 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-11 9:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-11 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-13 15:09 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-13 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-09 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
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