From: Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:36:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2011061817370453.29827@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sg9m8zuv.fsf@gnu.org>
>> It's rude indeed, but see his "apology" mail on Sat, 29 Aug 2020
>> 14:52:36 +0200. He has a personality disorder, which makes him behave
>> weirdly from time to time. IMO it's better to ignore this when it
>> happens.
>
> Sorry, I'm not prepared to ignore people who publicly smear the names of
> others with profanities. Those people should be prepared to have their
> names publicly smeared as well.
>
That's correct only if you assume that everyone behaves in a rational way.
There are people with psychological disabilities, who sometimes do not
behave rationally. One particularly impressive disability is for example
Tourette's syndrome.[1] The best thing you can do is to not take what they
do and say seriously/literally, IOW, to take what they do and say with
many grains of salt. Of course all this is more difficult to perceive
with people who behave irrationally only at times, and is also more
difficult to perceive on a mailing list.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome
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2020-11-05 15:16 Defun Self Documentation Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 16:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 19:22 ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-05 19:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-05 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 21:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 5:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 7:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 7:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 8:17 ` tomas
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2020-11-06 8:45 ` tomas
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2020-11-06 8:44 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 12:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 17:36 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-11-06 18:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09 3:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09 4:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09 3:48 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09 3:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09 3:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:10 ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
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2020-11-06 17:02 ` Defun Self Documentation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 18:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2020-11-06 9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 15:33 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 16:07 ` Christopher Dimech
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2020-11-09 4:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2020-11-09 13:32 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-11 15:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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