From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Highway Musophobia Revisited Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <289d3238-cbe2-4d98-9ce1-b0cbce383e70@default> References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ez92ry.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ey3jjd.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87k3kqnup9.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87li56mbet.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <871u6ym7xi.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87ppuikq6d.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374030569 19861 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 03:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:09:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 05:09:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1UzI7M-00053t-L1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:09:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzI7L-0005Bw-Rz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzI7A-0005Be-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzI79-0001Ne-1C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:17515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzI78-0001NU-QZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r6H39DYv026531 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:09:14 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6H39Cu8003917 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:09:13 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6H39CDG003910; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:09:12 GMT In-Reply-To: <87ppuikq6d.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92187 Archived-At: > You seem to be in favour of the mouse You seem to be grasping at straws. I am in favor of the spoon. And the knife. And chopsticks. And fingers. And a straw. And... The keyword is `and', not `xor'. > it is more difficult, *but not that much*. With training,=20 > everything is possible to express. You are apparently trying to make a virtue of self-imposed necessity. If you have only a spoon you will make do with a spoon to cut your crust of bread. If you have only a straw you will suck up your soft-boiled egg with it. Bravo. Look ma, no hands! M'as-tu vu !? > do it ten times, and you will be able to describe the > scene precisely Hair shirt. Sure, you can blindfold yourself and learn to get around pretty well with enough blind practice. Practice hard and you can learn to walk only on your hands or keyboard only with your toes. And you can rightfully be proud of the accomplishment. But if are lucky enough to have functioning eyes, legs, and hands then you can also choose to use them. There are lots of tools in life's tool chest. Drop the hammer occasionally and see beyond the nails.