From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:35:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874jvaont2.fsf@autistici.org> <83r0ybs07r.fsf@gnu.org> <83r0y9q5j1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15693"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 04:36:45 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1othK1-0003pF-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:36:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1othJF-0006gX-11; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1othJE-0006g2-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1othJC-000744-Qg; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:35:54 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=AHJu6dQLAVR82T7T1mUrsv+zH93kJ2hV7hQiqPfZe4Y=; b=Nc6Qy+rd0jcg S6UfDqP44PD+WvmbL0suZIdTRgUbd3Jnk05ABNkIn4D6Mr/uXsuzqjoBt7GcrgWTY+CjLn2/08zPf ih7Un/TZeA8V1kVJStr1P8vY3ERYq0WxvHLdyi4W6I6TjuB054DeBDAGQt8GQBw5engBwLA3/IDPW aIwOAmvsiNbGk4/lDJ1cqdJRY7If/WHie+fg8wfJwDpkjaCLUJVtLLanqUWMgW2CCkmyhVQ3DGdFX 9ev1N6G7r/HtTaYnpVRS19jRDn6KiKgn/wItCZiCcw6pDtHgohcyTFVkeCZJhIsGkp/C1gdPJziCY GeYlH0XYLHNzmcjRcHpgwQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1othJC-0007w5-Ey; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:35:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83r0y9q5j1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:06:26 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299596 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > That's okay, thanks. But it's only the beginning of my problem. How > do you describe the effect of applying a filter on top of one or more > other filters? Andrea wants to use "intersection", but I tend to > think this is too "mathematical" and too vague to explain clearly what > happens. What would be a good terminology for that? How about "filter further"? "Filter down"> "Filter more strictly"? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)