From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu
Subject: Re: yow.c
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:05:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmgf6umy.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FqIBP-0002QC-4C@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:20:27 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Please don't. I use yow.el with a local file to print funny one-line
> error messages, i.e. what I do is
>
> It doesn't make sense to keep the yow function in such a way
> that when run in the usual way it won't work.
>
> However, if we replace yow.lines with our own nonsequiturs, that would
> be a fine solution (as I said before). Please, people, go ahead.
As near as I can tell, the Zippyisms are bizarre phrases with random
words in all-caps. I'm sure there's more to it than that, though.
What sort of lines belong in yow.lines?
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-15 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-04 3:26 yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-04 8:52 ` yow.c Andreas Schwab
2006-06-04 16:55 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-09 17:57 ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-10 11:03 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-10 11:53 ` yow.c David Kastrup
2006-06-11 10:28 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-11 14:24 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-11 16:41 ` yow.c Drew Adams
2006-06-12 9:18 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-10 21:20 ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-11 16:16 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-13 13:32 ` yow.c Juri Linkov
2006-06-13 14:21 ` yow.c Sam Steingold
2006-06-13 14:51 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-13 18:13 ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-13 18:21 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-13 18:43 ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-14 10:03 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-13 23:20 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-15 2:05 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2006-06-15 6:11 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-16 19:18 ` yow.c Jay Belanger
2006-06-17 17:57 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-19 17:36 ` yow.c Jay Belanger
2006-06-19 23:19 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-20 11:45 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-20 12:03 ` yow.c David Kastrup
2006-06-20 12:30 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-17 17:57 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
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