From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists. Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:18:22 +0100 Message-ID: <853b8bazwx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <8764d8u085.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <85lkm4zbfa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854pssz8u7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r6vvolhx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85hcwrl1sc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164233940 17028 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 22:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 23:18:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn0Qf-00073D-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn0Qf-0003gF-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn0QU-0003fJ-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn0QU-0003f7-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gn0QU-0003f4-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gn0QT-00009P-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gn0QT-0001Fm-4w; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 695671C29846; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:18:22 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 23 Nov 2006 00\:09\:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62699 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: David Kastrup >> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:27:47 +0100 >> >> > Simple designs have their demerits as well. Witness the "cat >> > /usr/bin/emacs" snafu on Unix, where you can have yourself logged off >> > or hanged due to the fact that text and binary data are not >> > indistinguishable by design. >> >> "not indistinguishable"? > > Should I from now on point out and mock every minor typo in your > messages? I was trying to figure out what point you try to be making since "due to the fact" does not make sense at all, regardless of where I try locating a "minor typo". >> Anyway, are you saying that terminals can't get confused by binary >> data on Windows? > > No. Not in the terrible way the Unix terminal can, anyway, because > the Windows terminal doesn't interpret certain sequences of > characters as commands to the terminal driver. That would not appear to be a consequence of "the fact that text and binary data are [whatever] by design" at all. > About the worst you can get is a screen full of garbage and a few > beeps. Which is not related to the point you tried making about text/data on Unix, but rather a consequence of the terminal emulation. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum