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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

  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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