From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, yamaoka@jpl.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, rms@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undo in loaddefs.el buffer
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:22:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x54qi2yg7g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412310154.iBV1s5w05229@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:54:06 -0600 (CST)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> The manual is not supposed to describe every possible exception to the
> rules that could be made to work. That would make the manual too
> big, too complicated, and too hard to read for ordinary purposes.
>
> But 100% of the known examples (Auto Revert and Auto Revert Tail)
> contradict the rules.
If the rule is "you should not ...", of course 100% of all relevant
examples are exceptions.
And they have to take special measures to deal with the consequences
of violating the rule.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-31 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-21 14:14 undo in loaddefs.el buffer Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-21 15:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-22 4:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-12-22 4:58 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-12-23 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-23 0:26 ` David Kastrup
2004-12-25 15:13 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-24 1:45 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-24 21:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-26 9:14 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 5:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-24 23:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-25 15:12 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-26 2:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-26 2:32 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-26 3:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 2:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 20:16 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-28 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-26 16:15 ` Jan D.
2004-12-27 2:31 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-27 10:21 ` Jan D.
2004-12-27 11:05 ` Jan D.
2004-12-27 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-28 13:16 ` Jan D.
2004-12-28 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-29 12:59 ` Jan D.
2004-12-28 5:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-28 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-29 2:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-29 20:46 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-30 1:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-30 16:43 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-31 1:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-31 9:22 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-12-31 15:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-01 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-02 16:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-03 0:58 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 3:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-04 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-31 2:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-30 5:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-30 20:58 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 18:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 19:33 ` Jan D.
2004-12-28 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-28 8:11 ` Jan D.
2004-12-28 21:05 ` Jason Rumney
2004-12-29 23:22 ` Jan D.
2004-12-27 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-27 4:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-26 2:43 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-27 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 9:05 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-21 21:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-22 0:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-22 0:17 ` Richard Stallman
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