From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:44:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47fa2ca0-78bc-4277-88b6-d92110340dd1@googlegroups.com> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389761111 10745 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 04:45:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 04:45:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 05:45:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ILu-0007o1-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:45:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52072 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ILu-00049a-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:45:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.58.155.36 with SMTP id vt4mr112317veb.31.1389761075121; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:44:35 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.153.109 with SMTP id vf13mr5750igb.3.1389761074953; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:44:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!6no11038177qao.1!news-out.google.com!fv6ni3230qab.1!nntp.google.com!p15no15387652qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.48.54; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.48.54 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 04:44:35 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203138 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95407 Archived-At: On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:27:06 PM UTC+5:30, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-14, o godz. 01:24:34 > Rusi napisa=C5=82(a): > > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 8:15:05 PM UTC+5:30, Juanma Barranquero > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Drew Adams wrote: > > > > But (IMHO) too many people ignore Customize, often because they've > > > > gotten the impression somehow that it is for non-Lispers or wimps. > > > I just hate its UI. > > If a first year student of mine cannot distinguish data and code > > (s)he'd get an F grade. customize does that. > How lucky that John McCarthy was not your student... > No offence, just could not resist a (maybe lame) joke. Strangely a student of mine sent me this today morning -- something I had written in an email perhaps a decade ago... -------------------------------------- In the beginning there was the List And the List was Program And Program was Data And McCarthy saw this, that it was good and called it Lisp And then men saw this One World (footnote no women then) and decided that "data is objects" whereas "programs are almost like us" And they became afraid And they decided to build a tower of the kind that had never been built before -- a tower of types.