From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 23 Apr 2002 22:02:48 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87n0vw2y0v.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87it6iwqdi.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019567213 447 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2002 13:06:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=), Terje Bless , xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17000T-000076-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:06:53 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17001f-0003g0-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:08:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170007-0000i8-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zzxJ-0000Fn-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16zzwY-0001k4-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:02:50 +0900 Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" In-Reply-To: <87it6iwqdi.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.1.3 on Linux/i686) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3106 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3106 >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull writes: Stephen> Hm. That hadn't occurred to me. "Refuse to learn" in my Stephen> dialect is quite a strong condemnation, actually, and I Stephen> was already adding quite a bit of fuzz since Eli isn't Stephen> (quite) a native speaker. :-) To "refuse" to learn Stephen> typically implies obstinacy or perversity. In my Stephen> dialect, which I think is representative of native Stephen> speakers in this particular case. Stephen> My apologies, Eli, if I've gotten the connotations you Stephen> intend quite opposite. I see this last is quite unclear; it could be read to imply "Eli condemns Terje", which is not my intention. What I meant is that (1) I'm aware that Eli is not a native speaker, (2) I do not believe he intends "condemnation" of Terje, but (3) I do believe Eli feels strongly that Terje _should_ think again, and invest more effort in learning about Emacs. (4) If (3) is wrong, then I really misread Eli quite badly, and I'm sorry. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.