From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:50:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20100707064305.GF31621@groll.co.za> <20100707080139.GA18906@groll.co.za> <9dc07ed9-f6f1-4ac5-949a-5b97368cc32a@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87mxu22rbc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873cd6b9-8a85-478f-9943-c3ce09eb62c6@n8g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291846224 20087 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:10:24 +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 Dec 08 23:10:20 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSBF-0006FC-Sy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:10:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSB9-0004V2-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:08:03 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:50:26 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp In-Reply-To: <873cd6b9-8a85-478f-9943-c3ce09eb62c6@n8g2000prh.googlegroups.com> X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 35 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.133.62 Original-X-Trace: sv3-5T3mSI7Kjd0EAxMWxjCJQynyqL+fAYS07QQK33g5otOT3+StL4c5uslJbC98HntWbaVi9I3j3WNzQxo!f2DcJZUJ75m+QxoBl7UQ2HK9ibFfJHRHugU0SwZSboie1B77xA046oNyjvILSeM9DdgbS3WwNfIL!cirOMuj5rNnK327zhhqMC2tHL8m5ZQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179696 comp.emacs:100182 comp.lang.lisp:290221 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-12-22 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76106 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > On Jul 11, 6:31 am, "B. T. Raven" wrote: >>> my point is that this train of thought is bullshit, in particular >>> always just to mention something about Microsoft Word, and like the >>> way you did in a disrespectful way of writing Microsoft as M$. >> I am disrespectful of their goals, tactics, philosophy, sociopathy but >> not the people. Unlike the Supreme Court, I don't think corporations are >> people, just legal fictions that have to be mercilessly regulated. [...] > you wrote: >> just legal fictions that have to be mercilessly regulated. > > You are ignorant of basic economics. I suggest reading Thomas Sowell's > Basic Economics. I have some (lousy) notes here > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/jdini/basic_economics.html (if > you are one of the free software proponent, who like to pirate things > at night, i noticed that the audio version of Thomas's book is > available free on the net thru bittorrent. Go grab it quickly before > it got mercilessly regulated.) I bought (for $30 or $40) it and read it a year or two ago. I agree that it is must reading. Sowell has a hold of the elephant by one of its larger appendages. I agree about that and some ergonomics issues that you have broached, but about nothing in detail. The rest should be passed over in silence.... > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > ☄