From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:04:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob3g7vyp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140112143733.B3F863811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <83iotp88sb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140112164520.GA6770@thyrsus.com> <83d2jx85m3.fsf@gnu.org> <8361pp84as.fsf@gnu.org> <20140112184523.GC16457@thyrsus.com> <87ha99c88z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140112194223.GA16840@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389560716 10315 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 21:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 22:05:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1W2SDh-0006xg-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:05:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SDg-0005K1-K8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SDY-0005Jg-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SDT-0006Xf-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:55314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2SDN-0006Gb-Ja; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZB004003IEA500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:05:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZB0048S3WCBM00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:05:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140112194223.GA16840@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168243 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:42:23 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > David Kastrup : > > Please read the previous two paragraphs together. You ridicule Eli for > > not managing to fix your breakage in the first try, and then state that > > you yourself have no idea what caused it. > > !!! I wasn't ridiculing Eli, I was implicitly poking fun at myself. The > antecedent of "his own comic pratfall" is that *I* took one. > > As for the rest of your response, I'll pass over it in polite silence. > But your chances of successfully influencing my future behavior just > decreased. Guys? Can we please all cool down here and put this incident behind us? Anyone could make a mistake (even me ;-). I'd still want to know what's wrong with the original code, because I cannot see anything wrong with it.