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: [OT] Netiquette Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:04:11 +0200 Message-ID: <85wtbkc5ac.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> <39FA2311-142B-41C9-BCC3-AF09D6B819FC@alastairs-place.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150290497 17404 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 13:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 15:08:14 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 1FqV6N-0003Fo-U5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:08:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqV6M-0005qW-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqV68-0005qJ-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:07:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqV67-0005q6-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqV67-0005q3-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqVFI-0005dl-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FqV66-0001XP-KT; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 053271C464FD; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Alastair Houghton In-Reply-To: <39FA2311-142B-41C9-BCC3-AF09D6B819FC@alastairs-place.net> (Alastair Houghton's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:53:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (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:55890 Archived-At: Alastair Houghton writes: > On 14 Jun 2006, at 04:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Your reaction to David's response strikes me as impolite, because it >> interpreted a perfectly technical response as having a non-technical >> agenda, and pounced on him. > > It wasn't a "perfectly technical response". Only the first sentence > was technical. The whole reply (excluding quotes from your post) was Files set from a file local variables block are made buffer-local, anyway. Perhaps reading the documentation will help. So it consisted of two sentences. The first, longer sentence explained your mistake. The second, shorter one, pointed out that this was supposed to be covered in the documentation. Both sentences were intended to help you deal with your problem. >>> Anyway, to be clear, I'm really not interested in debating this >> >> Well, you started it to begin with. > > No, I didn't. Yes, you did, and by now it is reflecting badly on the attitude of people with an alastairs-place.net mail address. I suggest that you drop your diatribe which nobody will miss and instead try concentrating on the technical merits and issues of your patch. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum