From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Carmody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: yow Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:18:48 +0300 Organization: Saunalahti Customer Message-ID: <871vy6n8uv.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> References: <87abcvlzhe.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <588e63d3-52d3-4d9a-8726-07b85aaed7bd@m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224808930 17911 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 00:42:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:42:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 02:43:12 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtAli-0001lO-Ld for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:43:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtAkd-0003eo-2P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:42:03 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.germany.com!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!reader1.news.saunalahti.fi!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L4PNwB27kXF07/EalsNG2cGzd0Q= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.143.57.195 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.news.saunalahti.fi 1224807595 83.143.57.195 (Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:19:55 EEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:19:55 EEST Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163765 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59106 Archived-At: TheFlyingDutchman writes: > I have the same problem with Emacs 22.1.1 on windows. It looks like > the problem is that the file yow.lines (stored in the directory > pointed to by variable data-directory) only has one entry. When I > copied yow.lines from my Unix system to my Windows machine, yow gives > a different result each time. > > Here is what file yow.lines should contain (with the question marks > all being replaced by ASCII 00 ( displays as ^@ in Emacs) ). > > http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/etc/yow.lines Eeep, I just did a wget of that file, and now it's worse: """ Loading yow...done Am I CONSING yet?... cookie-snarf: Search failed: " %% \\| % \\|^@" """ Phil -- The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Preface to Androcles and the Lion