From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:43:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k4p3i1wf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278816258 8301 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 02:44:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Juanma Barranquero To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 04:44:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXmWd-0003JT-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:44:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXmWd-0004m7-HE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44323 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXmWY-0004ls-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXmWX-0006qW-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:50279) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXmWW-0006q4-82; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so710811ewy.0 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:44:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+PpRNBzZzSHTJdhcnYoVZv/dSpsMKRBiA3nbziLsFoU=; b=nZ9iXNfCGMcFoFT1x/QcW3U+k4Vt8f10yLZ2EU/8hLmCAYbBTKdPilae1LwYuReohS gAWYTuSMIfW1uu0VqVpgbgOUzMyZMWY/rA9kt1sMo0rMyqYc1RvlW5a2n51bTIwMMXBx URUMGSFdR40Ru4KbqbRLTRf9USE4V2/XCwfJM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LMrVJ2npDcyMTITfDEQQihnmb5aWYZvWCQyEIPZVaAdTcmE3NVjS+/WaYX4bdM1h+q 1GSYWjV+FdM0E51EkMtYdBBdT6KZy9AuVejdKWYTTjTs1/cI/SJpZSixuAQLUJNuVtwc 6J7sVafAKETKJtPvn5fyL9H5UpMsr/ylPZ3q4= Original-Received: by 10.213.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr9172431ebr.48.1278816247182; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.15.132 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:43:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k4p3i1wf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127024 Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Chong Yidong wrote= : > Lennart Borgman writes: > >> I would be very glad if anyone has time to try to merge my version and >> the trunk version. > > This discussion brings to mind a quote by the physicist Wolfgang Pauli. > In 1958, writing about on a colleague's (specious) claims to have found > a unified field theory, he drew a big blank rectangle, and remarked: > > =C2=A0This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. > =C2=A0Only technical details are missing. Hm. Quite creative association. Maybe it even can move things forward.