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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp manual: @section Mode Line Format is unclear
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:05:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d5jfiebz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jezmmjjutw.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:24:11 +0100")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>> "Specifiers", anybody?  ;-(
>
> ??? Where do you see "specifiers"?

I think he is referring to a particular set of rants I made on XEmacs
developer lists when getting exasperated about circularity and a lack
of comprehendability in XEmacs-specific parts of the Lisp
documentation.  The resulting outfalls made for a significant part of
my popularity there.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-30  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-29 23:04 Elisp manual: @section Mode Line Format is unclear Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-30  0:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-12-30  1:05   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-12-30  7:02   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-30  7:33   ` Elisp manual: @section Mode Line Format is unclear (cont.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-12-30  4:57 ` Elisp manual: @section Mode Line Format is unclear Richard M. Stallman

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