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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Language identification
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:27:54 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87praevb3p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvprae3aj0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > >> Is there a reason why users don't use the existing reliable mechanism?
 > > Many of the authors don't use Emacs, is my guess.
 > 
 > You mean they're still using `ed'?  Boggles the mind!

Sure, you could have too, and that probably would have been for the
best.  But freedom to choose is what GNU's all about, and I'm glad you
had the choice (even though you failed to choose ed(1), the Godfather
of editors).

If-my-tongue-were-any-further-in-cheek-it-would-be-in-Mozambique-ly y'rs




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-29 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-18 18:35 using libmagic in Emacs? joakim
2009-08-18 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-18 20:01   ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-18 20:35     ` joakim
2009-08-18 21:11       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-19  2:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-19  3:21           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-19 13:47             ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 15:57               ` joakim
2009-08-19 19:46               ` next bugfix release? [was: Re: using libmagic in Emacs?] Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-19 21:06                 ` next bugfix release? Chong Yidong
2009-08-19 21:53                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-19 22:56                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-08-19 23:16                     ` Nick Roberts
2009-08-20  9:02                       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-20 11:19                         ` Eric M. Ludlam
2009-08-20 15:13                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-08-20 15:47                         ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-19 19:05             ` installing features on trunk (was: using libmagic in Emacs?) Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 18:59               ` Bidi support Stefan Monnier
2009-08-21 20:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-22  3:39                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-22  8:18                   ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-22  5:39                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-22  7:31                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24  1:45                   ` Kenichi Handa
2009-08-24  3:12                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24  7:17                       ` Kenichi Handa
2009-08-24  3:25                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-19  0:57   ` using libmagic in Emacs? Juri Linkov
2009-08-20  3:42     ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-22 23:36       ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-24  0:07         ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-24  0:17           ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-24  7:33             ` joakim
2009-08-25  2:08             ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-25  2:19               ` Miles Bader
2009-08-25  5:09                 ` joakim
2009-08-25 13:27                 ` James Cloos
2009-08-25 21:41                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-08-25 17:36               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-25 20:37               ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29 23:19               ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-30  3:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-30 20:54                   ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31  2:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-31 16:17                       ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 17:58                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-01 12:16                           ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 16:12                             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:20                               ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-03 19:42                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-04  7:52                                   ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:21                       ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31  3:33                   ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 15:03                     ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-31 16:19                       ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 23:47                       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01  3:16                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-01  5:37                           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 12:16                       ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-25 20:36           ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-19 22:49   ` joakim
2009-08-19 23:20     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-20  1:03     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20  3:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-20  4:50         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 18:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21  0:19             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-20 18:32         ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-21 19:10           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-22  5:03             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-23  1:03               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-20 13:57     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-20 19:19       ` joakim
2009-08-20 22:08         ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-21  9:55           ` joakim
2009-08-21 11:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 17:38               ` joakim
2009-08-21 17:46                 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-08-21 18:31                 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-21 19:13                   ` Drew Adams
2009-08-21 18:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 21:48                   ` joakim
2009-08-21 22:46                     ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-22 20:18                       ` joakim
2009-08-22 23:13                         ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-23 23:38                           ` joakim
2009-08-24  3:05                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-24 12:30                               ` joakim
2009-08-23  3:24                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-21 19:18               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-21 13:19             ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-20 18:32     ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-20 20:27       ` Reiner Steib
2009-08-21 14:08         ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-21 19:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28  0:27 ` Language identification (was: using libmagic in Emacs) Juri Linkov
2009-08-28  4:58   ` Language identification Stefan Monnier
2009-08-28  9:00     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-28 14:56       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29  4:11         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 14:21           ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-29  0:46       ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29  4:13         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 15:28           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 16:27             ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-08-28 19:16     ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-29  1:12       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 16:01         ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 20:20       ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-29 22:48         ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-31  3:32           ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31  8:42             ` David Kastrup
2009-08-31  8:59             ` Jan D.
2009-08-31  3:33           ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-28  6:45   ` Alex Ott
2009-08-28  6:46   ` Alex Ott
2009-08-28 19:08     ` Juri Linkov

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