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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:20:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85sl8b4t6x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0706281507sf061363h3095cbb3f97df610@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Fri\, 29 Jun 2007 00\:07\:16 +0200")

"Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com> writes:

>> This discussion ceased to be about technical matters very soon...
>
> But it was amusing, a bit like a ping pong match... :)

I don't see that I succeeded soliciting the ping, though not for lack
of trying.

> A defadvice, like you suggested yourself, seems to be the win-win
> solution here. You are happy, David is happy and this means we all
> are happy :)

If I understood Juanma correctly (actually, rather unlikely), he had a
particular application where toggling overwrite-mode in read-only
buffers was causing him problems.

I have no clue what problems, and I have been completely unable to
coerce him into producing any argument that would make me get his
point.  While he accuses me that I wanted to convince him of being
mistaken or whatever, in fact I was rather begging to be convinced, to
no avail.  I have seen _nothing_ from him that I would have considered
a plausible basis for his wish.  Plausible in that it would explain to
me why _he_ considers his proposal a good idea, never mind whether _I_
would come to different conclusions from the same basis.

But I completely fail to see what could make him (never mind myself)
consider his proposal a worthwhile idea.  It's not just that I have a
different opinion: I don't _understand_ his position at all.  It is
completely void of any purpose I can discern.  I am just _baffled_.

Whatever.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-28 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27 13:39 `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 14:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 14:25   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 14:55     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 15:52       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 16:22     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-27 18:43       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 20:59         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 21:30           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 22:04             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 22:11               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 22:24                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 22:43                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 23:13                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 23:22                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  5:23                         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  7:51                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  8:07                             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  8:15                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  8:25                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  8:41                                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  9:04                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  9:09                                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  9:16                                         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  9:22                                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  9:48                                             ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-28 10:21                                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 11:14                                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-28 11:33                                                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 10:55                                             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 14:03                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-28 14:12                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 14:16                                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 14:30                                         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 14:39                                         ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-06-28 14:51                                           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 15:21                                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-06-28 15:38                                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 22:07                                           ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-28 22:20                                             ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-28 22:31                                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 16:25                                       ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-06-28 15:08                                     ` Davis Herring
2007-06-28 15:22                                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28  8:47                                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-28  9:11                                   ` David Kastrup

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