From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TheFlyingDutchman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: yow Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <588e63d3-52d3-4d9a-8726-07b85aaed7bd@m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <87abcvlzhe.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224808846 17733 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 00:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 02:41:47 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtAkM-0001VL-CY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtAjG-0002fb-Mi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.147.35 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224806013 21986 127.0.0.1 (23 Oct 2008 23:53:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.91.147.35; posting-account=9bWHAAoAAAAxSFC_2O_ssTETNW9NhMbW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163763 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:59104 Archived-At: I have the same problem with Emacs 22.1.1 on windows. It looks like the problem is that the file yow.lines (stored in the directory pointed to by variable data-directory) only has one entry. When I copied yow.lines from my Unix system to my Windows machine, yow gives a different result each time. Here is what file yow.lines should contain (with the question marks all being replaced by ASCII 00 ( displays as ^@ in Emacs) ). http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/etc/yow.lines Phil Carmody wrote: > Not that it's really important, but I notice that M-x yow > always returns the same quotation. Is that a bug, or am > I doing it wrong? > > Phil > -- > The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the > point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. > The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. > -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Preface to Androcles and the Lion