From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:36:20 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87k5fbzcfv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <4884DC7F.6060406@gmail.com> <819feff4-76e3-4bf8-9ece-7b47f099efc2@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <87hcaiiatp.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <86r69laodc.fsf@timbral.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216903472 4111 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 12:44:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:44:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 14:45:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KM0Bo-00024O-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:45:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM0Av-0001oG-Be for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:44:05 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flpi089.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4ZGH0kPXUCJBDj4k8hQCTZU9wEQ= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65e9c5e9.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=]6BSe]1:@GQ?W?WaA List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55900 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:39, Miles Bader wrote: > >> Do not depend on dictionaries for definitions of CS terms, they >> inevitably screw them up. > > I've quoted a dictionary, but I'm not depending on it; rather on my > own CS days back in the eighties. Obviously now it is a more generic > term. > But don't forget its not just a comp sci term. In fact, comp sci borrowed it from "normal" english. In my comp sci days, also in the 80s, it still had the more generalised term that fits with how emacs uses it. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au