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From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: yow
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:53:33 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <588e63d3-52d3-4d9a-8726-07b85aaed7bd@m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87abcvlzhe.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org

I have the same problem with Emacs 22.1.1 on windows. It looks like
the problem is that the file yow.lines (stored in the directory
pointed to by variable data-directory) only has one entry. When I
copied yow.lines from my Unix system to my Windows machine, yow gives
a different result each time.

Here is what file yow.lines should contain (with the question marks
all being replaced by ASCII 00 ( displays as ^@ in Emacs) ).

http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/etc/yow.lines

Phil Carmody wrote:
> 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?
>
> Phil
> --
> The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the
> point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
> The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Preface to Androcles and the Lion


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 23:53 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 ` TheFlyingDutchman [this message]
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 ` yow Drew Adams

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