From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some ideas with Emacs Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:14:45 +0100 Message-ID: <86zhgcspne.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <837e3iq0ks.fsf@gnu.org> <834kympy6y.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="178293"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 01 04:15:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ibFhW-000kGS-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:15:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40224 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ibFhV-0007ma-DI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:15:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ibFhM-0007m2-Ot for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibFhK-0004Aj-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:15:00 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:47584 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibFhI-0003yd-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ibFhF-000jxS-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:14:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:ur/L7WpdEiPOZ/cu7CU3aM0OocU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242931 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > We could add more examples where the > description is not self-explanatory > enough [...] And when the common use case is somehow different or unexpected, from reading the description. And when there is a really exotic use-case that no one would ever think of from just reading the description. Ever read grammar book for natural (human) languages? First there are a bunch of rules. One is like "...?" Then comes examples. And one is like "aah"! Finding _the right_ examples is the challenge. Examples that illustrate the rule(s) and also tells something interesting in their own right. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal