From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: herring@lanl.gov
Cc: john_owens@yahoo.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filladapt mode stops filling after lengthy amount of emacs uptime
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:29:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <853b3nucmk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46322.128.165.123.18.1175191550.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Thu\, 29 Mar 2007 11\:05\:50 -0700 \(PDT\)")
"Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:
>> I've got one for Emacs: it should quit its whining.
>>
>> That is rather insulting, which is not a way to be helpful.
>
> It was a joke! The actual import of that message was the groups in
> the regexp nested to 307 levels; Stefan noted the repetitious nature
> of the rest of it. Combined with the more recent message that a
> function `regexp-or' that could generate that kind of output was
> likely involved, it helped track down the problem.
>
> Emacs itself has no feelings, of course, so I imagined that I would
> not be misinterpreted. Apologies to anyone actually offended.
Emacs has no feelings? You've never seen it bluster its way out of a
lost game of gomoku, right?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 5:22 filladapt mode stops filling after lengthy amount of emacs uptime John Owens
2007-03-22 14:49 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-29 5:03 ` John Owens
2007-03-29 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-29 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-29 17:13 ` John Owens
2007-03-29 17:35 ` Davis Herring
2007-03-29 17:45 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-30 0:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-30 11:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-30 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-31 19:05 ` Michael Olson
2007-03-29 14:21 ` Davis Herring
2007-03-29 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 18:05 ` Davis Herring
2007-03-29 18:29 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-03-29 20:35 ` Davis Herring
2007-03-30 12:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 18:16 ` John Owens
2007-03-22 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-06 17:36 ` John Owens
2007-04-06 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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