From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using undumped Emacs Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:13:14 +0100 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7ezmxd18t1.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: <7ezmy1bh71.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110363363 6245 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 10:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 11:16:02 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8yDl-00077M-6y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:15:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ySO-0004O3-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:30:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!Quza.UK.peer!nntp.gblx.net!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1110359594 5299 193.204.44.145 (9 Mar 2005 09:13:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:13:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3vZmavG5x5SB3BNWCKb+E+BD/m8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129129 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24679 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24679 dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > What is an "umdumped" emacs? Dhruva Krishnamurthy has explained what "dumped" means, so i just emphasize that "un" in this context is more suitably thought of as "not-yet". the following analogy does not hold: do : undo :: dump : undump however, the following does: done : undone :: dumped : undumped of course, if you're a monkey on the tree, "reverse undo" may make sense after all (when upside down ;-), so apologies to all monkeys on trees out there who may have been unintentionally unhinged by this untroduction... thi