From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: undo in loaddefs.el buffer Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:22:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200412211414.iBLEEZ903426@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200412211541.iBLFfBc03861@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llbonyup.fsf@jurta.org> <200412260206.iBQ26wG17970@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <41CEE3B8.9090600@swipnet.se> <200412270231.iBR2VDE19709@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <41CFE247.8090409@swipnet.se> <200412280503.iBS53deD002564@manatee.dms.auburn.edu> <200412290207.iBT27Gk0006913@manatee.dms.auburn.edu> <200412300114.iBU1EY001351@moose.dms.auburn.edu> <200412310154.iBV1s5w05229@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104485115 22999 80.91.229.6 (31 Dec 2004 09:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, yamaoka@jpl.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 10:25:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CkJ1u-0002Hg-00 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:25:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CkJCt-0007QP-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:36:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CkJCL-0007Od-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CkJCJ-0007Mz-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CkJCI-0007MD-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:35:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CkIzh-0000BV-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CkItk-0006bw-4J; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:16:40 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200412310154.iBV1s5w05229@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:54:06 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31636 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31636 Luc Teirlinck 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