From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RE: Auto Fill Comments
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:43:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-72ef26f6-6729-4bbd-8412-831f9fce74f3-1606506181999@3c-app-mailcom-bs12> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fefc6462-dbfb-4f90-bdfd-f524db0a8a0f@default>
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 8:06 PM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > My experience has been that as I got to do more things in emacs lisp,
> > the understanding needed quickly exceeded my rate of learning.
>
> I'd put it this way, speaking of myself and others I know:
>
> "the understanding possible quickly exceeded..."
>
> IOW, as usual in life, the more you know the more
> questions you have - and the more interesting the
> questions are.
>
> It's not so much that I _need_ to know all the
> stuff I've newly become aware of. It's that I
> _can_ learn it. And yes, sometimes it's not
> immediately obvious which of all the new info
> I glimpse on the horizon I really do need
> immediately.
>
> > One can get to sophisticated constructs, even when trying to do
> > relatively simple things. You never know where your original
> > plan could get you. Many times the importance of a work is not
> > measured by its consequences (i.e. by the final command).
>
> 100% agreement.
>
> But again, this is not a failing from the fact
> that all that additional info is _available_.
Agreed, at times it is about discovery and re-discovery.
> It can be a failing if you can't see how you
> really want (or need) to proceed, to get to the
> info you most immediately need.
>
>
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2020-11-24 17:05 Auto Fill Comments Christopher Dimech
2020-11-24 19:42 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-24 19:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-24 20:02 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-24 20:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-25 0:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 4:40 ` Dante Catalfamo
2020-11-27 4:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 5:47 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-25 7:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-11-25 7:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 3:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 15:13 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 15:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-26 17:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 17:35 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:27 ` tomas
2020-11-26 18:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 19:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 20:16 ` tomas
2020-11-26 20:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 20:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 21:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 0:47 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 1:57 ` arthur miller
2020-11-27 2:20 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 3:04 ` arthur miller
2020-11-27 3:46 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 6:27 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 6:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 7:02 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 7:15 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 7:29 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 7:00 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 7:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 8:26 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 13:26 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 2:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 2:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 3:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 5:47 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 6:06 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 6:21 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 6:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 6:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 6:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 3:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 6:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 7:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 8:11 ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-27 9:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 9:11 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 8:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 9:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 13:44 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 16:02 ` tomas
2020-11-27 17:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 17:53 ` tomas
2020-11-27 18:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 18:45 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 21:16 ` tomas
2020-11-27 21:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 19:03 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 19:39 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 21:26 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 21:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 22:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-27 22:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 1:06 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-28 1:24 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 22:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 1:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-28 1:45 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 2:54 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-28 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 12:05 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 15:58 ` Andy Moreton
2020-11-28 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 16:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 0:08 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-29 0:21 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 0:25 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-29 0:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 1:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-29 2:24 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 2:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-29 3:21 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 23:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30 0:06 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 1:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-30 1:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 2:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-30 8:58 ` tomas
2020-11-30 10:09 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 10:41 ` tomas
2020-11-30 11:47 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 12:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 2:38 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30 3:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-01 18:47 ` Andreas Eder
2020-11-30 6:45 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-30 21:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30 22:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 22:26 ` tomas
2020-11-30 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-30 23:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 8:45 ` tomas
2020-11-30 22:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30 23:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 8:42 ` tomas
2020-12-01 15:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 16:35 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 18:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 19:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-01 19:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 21:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-01 22:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 22:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 23:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-01 23:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-02 4:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 16:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 23:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30 23:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 7:52 ` Yuri Khan
2020-11-29 18:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 12:08 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-28 12:02 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 0:05 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 19:06 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 19:43 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-27 16:25 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 13:31 ` Jean Louis
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2020-11-27 17:00 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 17:54 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 18:40 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 18:47 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 18:30 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 8:48 ` tomas
2020-11-27 13:27 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-26 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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