From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `set-variable' should use :set Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:47:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d3r3qd44.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <871v7jqchc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <033D7FA139144B03B1370B9E9C1113ED@us.oracle.com> <87bp6nklx2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <823F3463F14A490A90A6075368296AC2@us.oracle.com> <4EEEE63344BB4696B708EE3C3A8BE349@us.oracle.com> <87vd4tjyz0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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 1287856126 28956 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2010 17:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Emacs-Devel devel , Miles Bader To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 23 19:48:44 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 1P9iCy-0001k3-2u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:48:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P9iCx-0007aM-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51542 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P9iCp-0007Z5-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P9iCm-000432-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:51420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P9iCl-000428-IG; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn9 with SMTP id 9so2468009iwn.0 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:48:29 -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=RmaCvL7T7wn9WmmtxFkze9/xz6ptL8x52lwXNL6XcYM=; b=od+W9dKmOaoeK0MG/uI1+SmRGqCS7+2O82nZT4AQ1V5ihRLkvIF3qunIt1vsLRL8xM Akzttuc3HWF6nzXPgOlV39iPwrGWJtRruZ5amoWSK149LeMjj+rbqV2tyRXDufvozFwv NDsJoGv7KIHFzKhkcaOBS+BEaCsfZ09HuQiCg= 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=sf8drNoXHHLIQKIkRRm5WbpcsledbyQZEosnYXqTMmsJ9Abz7UXIkD2cHa1N3q7fqb VQIMiE6Ca8DQCmB6v0xCx8bBnETq7W0+sZE+NLyUSu4iU4vhFDdFPLS84fCTIJ80A0zx dmO4qpOlPM9ASVbfSYjqJ4NkrSDNbwb+diZcI= Original-Received: by 10.231.39.129 with SMTP id g1mr2694752ibe.178.1287856109678; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.62.1 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:47:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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:132025 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 18:13, Drew Adams wrote: > But it seems we both prefer, at least in some such trivial cases, to teac= h > fishing rather than grab the pole and pull an already caught fish on boar= d. =C2=A0I > placed the fish firmly on the hook this time. =C2=A0It's really not diffi= cult to reel > it in. > > What's missing is the will to do so, which apparently depends on agreemen= t that > this fish is a worthy one. Or even a that it is truly a fish! Submittin= g > patches does no more good here than pointing out clearly what is wrong. = Believe > me (or not). > I'm really interested in knowing whether I'm the only one who finds this comment quite patronizing... (I'm not offended, so this is not a request for apologies, but a genuine question.) =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma