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From: John Stone <johnrstone2011@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation is bad
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 07:26:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEU3wuUSNGEQ+OVc9wF8t_Jc9Kzob8EZTTRdzDO_TdoUtm29iQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180909133428.GC6746@tuxteam.de>

> I'd try to help you, but the way you are yelling around, I don't really
feel like it.

don't fix the broken the docs then, we'll use a different lisp for this
project

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:34 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:49:54PM -0700, John Stone wrote:
> > lambda expression is a function which can appear wherever a function name
> > can appear? bullshit, delete the lies from the manual
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:48 PM John Stone <johnrstone2011@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > how fucking hard did you make this
> > >
> > >
> > > (
> > >  (
> > >   (lambda (f)
> > >     (lambda (x)
> > >       (list f x)))
> > >   'g
> > >   )
> > >  'y
> > >  )
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:46 PM John Stone <johnrstone2011@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> (
> > >>  (lambda (f)
> > >>    (lambda (x)
> > >>      (list f x)))
> > >>  'g)
> > >> 'y
> > >> )
> > >>
> > >> this crashes emacs but try to figure out why from docs and you're shit
> > >> out of luck and just wasted half a fucking day
>
> What is your problem? None of those things "crashes" Emacs. The first
> one has one parenthesis too much, in the second one you're trying
> to apply something to 'y which is not a function (the symbol 'g).
>
> Look, if you were a tad nicer, I'd try to help you, but the way you
> are yelling around, I don't really feel like it.
>
> Cheers
> - -- t
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-09 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-09  1:46 Emacs documentation is bad John Stone
2018-09-09  1:48 ` John Stone
2018-09-09  1:49   ` John Stone
2018-09-09 13:34     ` tomas
2018-09-09 14:26       ` John Stone [this message]
2018-09-10  4:13         ` Bob Newell
2018-09-10  8:54           ` Van L
     [not found]         ` <mailman.577.1536552821.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-12 20:06           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-12 22:08           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.555.1536503215.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-09 21:33         ` Barry Fishman
2018-09-09 21:39           ` Noam Postavsky
     [not found]           ` <mailman.570.1536529199.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-09 22:10             ` Barry Fishman
     [not found]   ` <mailman.548.1536497190.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-09 21:10     ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-09-09 21:22       ` tomas
2018-09-09 21:38       ` Barry Fishman

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