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: arch-tag lines in tutorials. Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:32:19 +0900 Message-ID: References: <878y3pldzl.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87br8hnlma.fsf@kali.intranet> <877jj4pg0o.fsf@xs4all.nl> 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113570368 12826 80.91.229.2 (15 Apr 2005 13:06:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Marcelo Toledo , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 15:06:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMQVT-0005bb-SK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:05:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMQYy-0003ar-Cd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMQ1Q-0006LM-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMQ1E-0006Hi-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMQ1D-0006FU-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.196] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DMQ0V-0001Fz-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so743048wri for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:32:20 -0700 (PDT) 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:content-disposition:references; b=T0XzMnvyncPRxu2gI+yF2RK+r8ygLooJ3eO1b2LC9+dI19BdFvcG7PbKy/pvrdRzCIWZsM/pdToFZ6QytGQBFeyaQfk+wAjylnXC9k9LWqk/kQKnWheGMn4J8b/6aHFZ99gi6WPL6GXnUv/lB0ADCQAwx5o0BDR7413/cMVIu5o= Original-Received: by 10.54.19.12 with SMTP id 12mr45320wrs; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <877jj4pg0o.fsf@xs4all.nl> Content-Disposition: inline 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:36026 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36026 On 4/15/05, Lute Kamstra wrote: > But someone reading the tutorial wants to > learn about Emacs, so exposure to local variables is a good thing. >=20 > Arch-tag lines seem a bit too far off-topic to me, though. (But I > don't think they are very harmful.) Yup, my thoughts exactly. The only reason I can think of to remove such things is for aesthetics. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.