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From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Beginners question
Date: 11 Sep 2002 13:26:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lit1csai9.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: allo4s$7qp$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk

>>>>> John writes about calendar's support for Mayan dates:
> Thank you for your encouragement to all who have replied. I'm still
> curious as to why this feature is there, but no doubt over time I'll
> find it useful.

It's just a remnant from the first emacsen developed before europeans
invented america.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-11 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-10 19:18 Beginners question John
2002-09-10 19:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-09-10 20:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-10 21:28   ` John
2002-09-10 21:35     ` Mayan Calender --- why? (was: Beginners question) lawrence mitchell
2002-09-10 21:53     ` Beginners question Alan Shutko
2002-09-11  0:18       ` Edward M. Reingold
2002-09-11 14:09         ` John
2002-09-10 22:20     ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-09-11  0:57       ` Harry Putnam
2002-09-11  3:46         ` David Forrest
2002-09-11 13:53           ` D. Goel
2002-09-11  6:27         ` Raimund.Kohl
2002-09-11 17:26     ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2002-09-12  6:42     ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found] <mailman.1031726175.15955.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-11 10:17 ` Kai Großjohann

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