From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:29:04 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112279952 5287 80.91.229.2 (31 Mar 2005 14:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 16:39:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DH0nR-0007JZ-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:37:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DH149-0005n3-FW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DH0wb-0000rB-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DH0wP-0000kw-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DH0wP-0000kf-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.199] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DH0fQ-0000r8-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:29:05 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so374673wri for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:29:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=iDhIVhws90LQnCcO9clrziPTBbvi/ChxjcaMW2kzetIaW/TlX3kyzQSB80cNbU4S0ut9gqp58rarZNd6kcFySiEAZuSkv6xSxydyQDxKlNQvhCM7Q9/h4zuyZLM8E85XBa8cj3IObYmAofPi1sBlidYVrcNnUgPjfcOgx7/K2Ks= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.8 with SMTP id h8mr829864wra; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:29:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:29:04 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: 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:35428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35428 On Mar 31, 2005 10:32 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > From: Miles Bader > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:05:46 +0900 > > his words much too literally > > perhaps it is better to call this region of characters "text before > first DELIM, where DELIM is period" instead of "sentence". Why? It's still just as clunky no matter what you call it. A period (or whatever) is a pointlessly awkward delimiter. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.