Re: typing slows down dramatically when typing digits in emails

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> Which version of Emacs is that?

We should have a Gnus posting style that inserts the Emacs
version last in each post that goes to a GNU Emacs list, and
that would be computed each time, so after that, to quote the
Captain of Titanic, "now nothing can go wrong" ... and we
would be saving time as well!

(info "(gnus) Posting Styles")

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;;
;; this file:
;;   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/meta.el
;;
;; also see:
;;   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/w3m/w3m-version.el
;;
;; example:
;;   GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, cairo version 1.16.0)
;;   of 2022-05-22 [commit 714970f5967f2153bb95e35823dbd917e0e5b60b]

(defun emacs-version-commit (&optional here)
  (interactive "P")
  (let ((ver (replace-regexp-in-string " \\(of\\)" "\\1"
               (format "%s [commit %s]"
                 (emacs-version)
                 (emacs-repository-get-version) ))))
    (when here
      (insert ver) )
    (message ver) ))

(defalias 'ever #'emacs-version-commit)

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