From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setq and setq-default Date: 15 Sep 2006 04:00:51 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1158318051.209785.284920@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: <1158164996.335560.182180@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1158259324.283308.136850@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <85irjqnunr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158320500 18733 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 11:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 13:41:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOC4Q-0004rR-Uq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:41:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOC4Q-0008Cp-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:41:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1158318056 14257 127.0.0.1 (15 Sep 2006 11:00:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:00:56 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <85irjqnunr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141761 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37383 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > robert.thorpe@antenova.com writes: > > > Emacs is rather like an object orientated system. > > Proud claim. I said "rather like". I was trying to analogise it to something the OP may be familiar with. > Probably means something like: if it breaks, you get to > keep the pieces, and each of them may further break in its own way. Don't we get to keep the bits? ;) I could have said it was an object disorientated system or an "objects are theft" system. But I was trying to be restrained.