From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:24 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87hb631zvf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87livooqt6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2B158B.1080101@gmx.at> <87wrf8iyse.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2BEED2.5040608@gmx.at> <8739hvu6lh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2C50E6.3020103@gmx.at> <878vrnweju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2D34D7.4040002@gmx.at> <87r55cjvef.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjpsnerd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d3gvqhkd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874o26rgq6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87zkjxq2zl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8362mleg0s.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipqlpm31.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <834o25ecw0.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3grpx90.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83bowbd96p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312044353 24205 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2011 16:45:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:45:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 18:45:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnCfX-0001Ko-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnCfX-0006tK-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnCfU-0006tB-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnCfT-0001Fz-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnCfT-0001Fr-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnCfS-0001I9-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:38 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ed3f4.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.211.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:38 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ed3f4.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ed3f4.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fk/jB9TLUhwdZQItdmiUjgK8WCI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142524 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" >> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:08:11 +0900 >> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> > > Certainty is not "high" or nor even "quite high". Certainty is an >> > > absolute, no differences from expectation allowed. >> > >> > Sorry for not choosing the right word, English is not my first >> > language. I guess I meant high probability. >> >> I'm sorry, this is not about your English, which is more than >> sufficient to the discussion. I did not intend to focus on your word >> choice, rather on the fact that the outcome is uncertain. > > The level of uncertainty should be low, that's all. E.g., like the > level of uncertainty that the sun will rise tomorrow in the East and > not elsewhere. That's likely a different metric in parts of Finland than in Israel. -- David Kastrup