From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: One org file, multiple exports, is it possible?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 07:53:47 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66FC3F4F-DFAE-4D2B-A95D-1A05B9558B1F@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFC082C.3060201@comcast.net>
Thanks Mark,
That's evocative. Now I'm off to see how I let those bits rot.
All the best,
Tom
On May 25, 2010, at 7:26 AM, Mark Elston wrote:
> On 5/25/2010 9:20 AM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>> Thanks Bernt,
>>
>> So, "broken custom settings" appear to be the cause of the unexpected
>> behavior. Two questions:
>>
>> 1) Do programmers have a name for this situation, where custom
>> settings
>> seemed to work perfectly for a long time but then failed noticeably
>> with
>> the introduction of new, correct code into the .emacs?
>
> Well, in an organization I used to work at we called it 'bit rot'
> though it wasn't necessarily about Emacs ... :)
>
> Mark
>
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 23:46 One org file, multiple exports, is it possible? Karl Martino
2010-05-23 0:47 ` Karl Martino
2010-05-23 4:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 12:22 ` Karl Martino
2010-05-23 15:58 ` Eric Schulte
2010-05-23 16:17 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 16:31 ` Karl Martino
2010-05-23 18:49 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-23 20:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 22:01 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-24 5:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-24 16:36 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25 3:38 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25 3:50 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-05-25 16:20 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25 16:52 ` Nick Dokos
2010-05-25 17:51 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-28 3:40 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25 17:26 ` Mark Elston
2010-05-25 17:53 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-05-26 18:42 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-26 21:37 ` Nick Dokos
2010-05-26 22:28 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-27 1:40 ` Nick Dokos
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