From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annotating Info Pages? Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87zle4cnud.fsf@gmail.com> References: <200904251425.n3PEPCJL010351@zogzog.maillard.mobi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240702335 4834 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2009 23:32:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:32:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 26 01:33:35 2009 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 1LxrNC-00014D-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:33:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxrLn-0001cW-K1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxrLU-0001cR-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxrLP-0001ZN-0v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60983 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxrLO-0001Z5-SA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37779 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LxrLO-0004kt-As for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LxrLK-0000Sp-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:31:34 +0000 Original-Received: from pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net ([70.18.28.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:31:34 +0000 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:31:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jmG5kvnr82JjrSTY6eiOGAtWgX8= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:64025 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: Sean Sieger writes: > Richard Riley writes: > > I'm literally gobsmacked .... > > Speechless, but not? I had to look that word up---it's a relatively new > word---I went in thinking it meant you're a poor reader and writer. > > > No. I was wondering if you were trolling to be honest as the following phrase from you .. ,---- | > directory of each project. As stream-of-consciousness as the worksheets | > are, and hence profuse with elipses, I have never been able to afford | > myself the use of brackets. `---- .. did not tie in with your next sentence: While you were wondering instead of reading, my first paragraph was meaning something. Something very important to me. And my second paragraph---set off by just that, a blank line, or paragraph and not necessarily hypotactically so, was a sincere apology. ,---- | > And sorry about the `agression' earlier, it was an infantile wish to do | > away with some frustrating communication. `---- .. as basically I could hardly understand a word of that first part :-; That's what I meant about your poor reading. You know what is the most instructive thing I have ever heard said about reading and writing? That strong readers are strong writers. Maybe instead of worrying about GNU/Emacs being in contention for the strongest IDE, you should try using it for learning how to read and write well---ostensibly, as the strongest _text_ editor that I know of. I dread the day GNU/Emacs becomes Eclipse.