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: A wish, a plea Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:09 +0200 Message-ID: <85ir9de8au.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 1182695306 16623 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2007 14:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:28:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 16:28:24 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 1I2T4i-0005bX-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2T4h-0002fI-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2T4e-0002eA-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2T4c-0002dm-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2T4c-0002dj-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2T4c-0001sQ-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.29]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A4A4D557 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725152793F9 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-092-238.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.92.238]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3D719B325 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 00B7D1C3EE46; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:28:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun\, 24 Jun 2007 16\:22\:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3517/Sun Jun 24 14:28:53 2007 on mail-in-01.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:73750 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 6/24/07, Drew Adams wrote: > >> No, of course my proposal is not better _because_ I like it. I gave >> reasons why it is better. #2 is the summary, not the argument. > > So it's not better. [...] >> Why? Because proposals are countable. > > Then David was right. Your proposals are not countable. While there is a certain amusement value to it, we are at the moment bitching about bitching when we could be bitching about Emacs. Or even work on it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum