From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Phil Carmody'" <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk>,
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: yow
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:20:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01f101c9356e$41757060$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abcvlzhe.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org>
> Not that it's really important, but I notice that M-x yow
> always returns the same quotation. Is that a bug, or am
> I doing it wrong?
I believe there was some licensing/copyright issue involved in using the set of
Zippy quotes, and GNU decided to forego it. You can probably find the full set
on the Web somewhere.
Googling comes up with this reference to the change (see end of page):
http://www.red-bean.com/pipermail/arcana/2007-July/000017.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-23 22:26 yow Phil Carmody
2008-10-23 23:53 ` yow TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-23 23:58 ` yow TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-24 0:18 ` yow Phil Carmody
2008-10-24 0:41 ` yow TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-24 7:53 ` yow TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-24 8:10 ` yow TheFlyingDutchman
2008-10-24 0:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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