From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:13:16 +0000 Message-ID: <87h8rl4a1v.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <86tvvmdhx5.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516147916 25360 195.159.176.226 (17 Jan 2018 00:11:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 17 01:11:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ebbKU-0005y0-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 01:11:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebbMU-0002Mn-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:13:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebbM1-0002MT-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:13:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebbLy-0007Wt-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.7]:50910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebbLy-0007VO-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:13:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10A8298A4D for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 22551 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2018 00:13:17 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.88.156]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 17 Jan 2018 00:13:16 -0000 In-Reply-To: <86tvvmdhx5.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:46:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 81.17.249.7 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115749 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > > I don't know how cheques work but people use > them so they must serve some purpose. Here, > credit cards are now legio and people pay > everything with them. They're simple for the person recieving the payments and good for irregular or one-off payments. Take my accountant for example. I pay him by cheque. He doesn't have a card payment machine, his business isn't large so he probably can't justify getting a machine. I could pay cash but it would be more than I usually carry. So, I'd have to make a special trip to an ATM. Then there's the risk of losing cash or of crime. He has the same risks, so he wouldn't like cash either. I could use the electronic payment feature of my bank's website. The problem there is that he would need to give me his bank details. Those may change in the future, so I'd have to ask him every time. Then, I only have 14 characters to identify the transaction. On my cheque book stub I have as much as I can write in, which is a lot more. I use cheques much less often than I did. I only write maybe 10-20 per year. I used to write maybe three times as many. This is getting really off-topic. So, I'm not going to say anything more about it. BR, Robert Thorpe