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
next prev parent 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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