From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Date: 08 Nov 2003 02:28:56 +0100 Organization: sometimes Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7eu15fejhj.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068255865 6958 80.91.224.253 (8 Nov 2003 01:44:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 02:44:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AII9H-0004HH-00 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:44:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AIJ6g-00038y-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:45:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1068254934 27245 193.204.44.145 (8 Nov 2003 01:28:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:28:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117999 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13938 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13938 "Jody M. Klymak" writes: > Heh, heh. Compared to what? Assembly code? hard like a diamond, more precious than softest silk. shards, as you find them, but round-wound and finest-built. capriciously crafted, though the careless do bleed indeed. atomic-width knifepoint -- eval not the random seed! shift left shift right, lose the high bit: over{n,s}ight. store direct, load indexed, flush the cache if caught perplexed. pipe stall pipe stall pipe stall (is that *really* all?). write to set, write to clear, read as zero (i hope, i fear). betwixt the extremes the hapless human sits. quatrains befuddled and almost dropping to free verse. one generation drops its bombs on the next and forgets. children grow into machines and repeat the mistakes. what use is it to lovingly collect future junkpiles so easy to neglect? thi