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: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:43:07 +0200 Message-ID: <85ejinrqgk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185997479 31178 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2007 19:44:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 01 21:44:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IGK7S-0005ZK-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:44:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGK7S-0001Fk-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:44:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGK6w-00014j-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:43:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGK6v-00014L-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGK6v-00014D-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGK6u-00046B-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AD215C08F; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:43:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEC512DE74; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:43:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-017-017.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.17.17]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AF83425E3; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:43:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B22641C3E076; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:43:07 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed\, 1 Aug 2007 11\:29\:57 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.1, clamav-milter version 0.91.1 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:75930 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> You argue against anything not designed by yourself >> until everybody is exhausted > > Please drop the personal attacks, David. Why the plural tense? This was the first remark in this thread where you (not for the first time) simply ignore others' explanations and keep restating your initial not-thought-through proposal time and again. > I was trying to help this interminable thread come to a conclusion, But wearing the others out is not going to address the underlying technical _facts_ of their objections. It is not a matter of opinion that a string does not carry "file", "buffer", "whatever" markers associated with it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum