From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bigger integers Date: 03 Sep 2004 23:29:59 +0000 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87656vgcco.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094254511 28949 80.91.224.253 (3 Sep 2004 23:35:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 23:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 01:35:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3Na8-0000yM-00 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 01:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3NfB-00078l-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:40:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=M;fY;KhF60jLe;G?0:PcbBd4DjF1d]a Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125078 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:20431 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20431 Joe Corneli writes: > After all, emacs lisp is designed to count characters in a file, > not to compute factorials. > > "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time > display editor." > > If I can't extend or customize it to compute 12! then there seems to > be something missing. Kevin's factorial works though so I guess > that's good enough for me... oh wait a second now it stopped working. Oh yes, it IS extensible and customizable. The question is: is it worth the effort to extend and customize it? And what does 12! have to do with editing files anyway? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.