From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:42:23 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140112194223.GA16840@thyrsus.com> References: <20140112143733.B3F863811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <83iotp88sb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140112164520.GA6770@thyrsus.com> <83d2jx85m3.fsf@gnu.org> <8361pp84as.fsf@gnu.org> <20140112184523.GC16457@thyrsus.com> <87ha99c88z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389555787 24038 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 19:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:43:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 20:43:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2QwA-0003dW-89 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2Qw9-00074C-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2Qw2-0006zM-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2Qvy-0008Hs-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59625 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2Qvt-0008HA-PV; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:42:53 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F2C93811D4; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:42:23 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ha99c88z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168224 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > Please read the previous two paragraphs together. You ridicule Eli for > not managing to fix your breakage in the first try, and then state that > you yourself have no idea what caused it. !!! I wasn't ridiculing Eli, I was implicitly poking fun at myself. The antecedent of "his own comic pratfall" is that *I* took one. As for the rest of your response, I'll pass over it in polite silence. But your chances of successfully influencing my future behavior just decreased. -- Eric S. Raymond