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: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:51:38 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7633db2b-70a8-48b3-99ff-d62486868e09@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com> References: <2p8vx4550z.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <87lj11dhm9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pqqda3a4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d3md89mh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pqqclc38.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87aahghqod.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y64zgpgo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299022855 17441 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2011 23:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 23:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 00:40:51 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuZBR-0002rG-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:40:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuZBR-0004p5-9k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:40:49 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.36.149.131 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299019898 18037 127.0.0.1 (1 Mar 2011 22:51:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.36.149.131; posting-account=9bWHAAoAAAAxSFC_2O_ssTETNW9NhMbW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; AskTbBT5/5.9.1.14019),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.lang.lisp:300193 gnu.emacs.help:185520 comp.emacs:101215 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:79670 Archived-At: On Mar 1, 5:52=A0am, Cthun wrote: > On 01/03/2011 4:27 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > > Cthun =A0writes: > > >> What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > >> with Lisp, Kastrup? It is well known that it is all-caps languages > >> like COBOL and BASIC that cause brain damage, Kastrup. > > > Today's Common Lisp is just as case insensitive as those. > > Except that it's not called "COMMON LISP", Kastrup. > Because it is not an acronymn, Cthun. COBOL and BASIC are not capitalized to do how their language handles case but because they are acronyms: COBOL - COmmon Business-Oriented Language BASIC - Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code Acronyms are all-caps, whereas words are only capitalized, Cthun.