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: on ``An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp'' Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:08:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87oabx36ax.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87oac34e2o.fsf@debian.uxu> <871t8z6tgc.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87io297a26.fsf@debian.uxu> <87h9hsheov.fsf@mbork.pl> <87vb687y6s.fsf@debian.uxu> <874mdrh8zq.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zivi7m7n.fsf@debian.uxu> <0qfuxavx2g.fsf@toledo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454530178 5185 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2016 20:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 20:09:38 +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 Feb 03 21:09:23 2016 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 1aR3jt-0005dO-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:09:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR3jt-0007nN-3D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57115) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR3jf-0007mX-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:09:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR3ja-0000F5-Sk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR3ja-0000Ey-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aR3jY-00058Z-SV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:09:01 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:09:00 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:09:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J7yQNVThbvqmQ2eUodCA3/bOtm8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:108990 Archived-At: Daniel Bastos writes: > I tend to look at software as things which cannot > fail whatever. If they fail, chances are I will look > into the failure to see why. I don't want to find > out that I'm spending hours investigating an > experiment someone decided to try out since last > week. IOW, if something failed, I must be dealing > with a true exceptional situation here. Indeed. One of the many beauties to it. > (Though I particularly don't have one. In fact, > I don't have a computer at home. I use one at work.) Indeed. It is like going to the workshop instead of carrying around the toolbox everywhere, always thinking about it but still not being able to have everything cramped in. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573