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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thinking about changed buffers
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:26:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fuv29c6s.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3shz254qg.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2016 07:21:11 +0200")

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I think it's a psychological issue. If you've accepted doing convoluted
> things for years because your favourite tool lacks obvious functionality,
> then it's quite common to feel that that should never be fixed. Because
> fixing the problem would mean accepting that you've done silly things for
> years as a work around, and the obvious fix becomes a personal insult,
> almost.

I think the first part is certainly true. I've become so used to a silly
command sequence that I see nothing wrong it; but if I had to explain it to
someone else, there would be some shame. :)

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-04  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-28 17:31 Thinking about changed buffers Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 17:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 18:00   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 18:10     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 18:19       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 18:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 18:53           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 18:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 19:06               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 19:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 19:23                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 19:38                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 19:46                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 20:21                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-29  2:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 18:54           ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-28 18:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-28 18:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 18:49 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-03-28 19:13   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-28 19:20     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 20:13       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-28 20:32       ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-03-28 20:33       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-03-28 20:17     ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-28 18:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 19:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-28 19:27     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 19:32       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-28 20:16         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-28 20:22           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-28 21:43       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-29  8:53 ` Florian Weimer
2016-03-29 13:14 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-29 13:39   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-29 15:30     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-03 23:05       ` John Wiegley
2016-04-03 23:29         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-03 23:30           ` John Wiegley
2016-04-03 23:44           ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-04  0:20             ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-04  0:29               ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-04  5:21             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04  5:26               ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-03-29 22:26     ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-03 23:05     ` John Wiegley

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