From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RFC: Flavors - naming significant sets of customizations Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:50:57 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87eh5sld2d.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <9fc6b1ae-7cbd-4a17-a9a0-f4af42969312@googlegroups.com> <5592550c-72f1-4e9b-93db-dc7f95742d27@googlegroups.com> <874n6vx2aq.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87eh5yitq2.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <871u1yezoy.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87y544k03q.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <877gbnhlpc.fsf@gmail.com> <87li03z062.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <8738m9wrp0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386179714 9892 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2013 17:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:55:14 +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 Dec 04 18:55:21 2013 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 1VoGfQ-0005rx-5c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:55:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoGfP-0002ro-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:55:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:CjQicD+NRBaZ3sACz6GAoVkux7w= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202561 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:94830 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: >> But if there are any really cool discussions there, >> I guess you could post them here. > > The discussions are not archived. You can flush an IRC buffer to a file on your disk. I don't remember how to do that, and I'm not going to find out as I'm not into IRC, but it is a simple built-in command, that much I remember. > What I meants was IRC is a good place to gossip as > long as the OPs are on your sides. No, my experience is actually that IRC isn't a good place at all. It is disruptive ("idle/busy wait" for responses), and you can only type your messages in that small typing area. Compare this to mails (and/or Usenet posts) which make for much more well-thought (and persistent) communication. Also, people seem to have a bad attitude in general on IRC. Lots of people there just idling, never saying a word, setting up bots to look even more imposing. IRC was fun as long as I configured Irssi but I never used it for any good. > Mailing lists like this are un-suitable for such > gossips. I'm not gossiping. That Linus Torvalds is rude to his programmers in the Linux kernel community is a well-known fact. This is not a piece of information I have acquired in close-quarters and now release to the world. You just need to join the LKML to experience this first hand. This has also been mentioned several times in the press the past half year or so. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573