From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Doing things only in a particular mode Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:09:33 -0400 Message-ID: <8737z5n75u.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87fv38o4di.fsf@yale.edu> <87bndtn8r6.fsf@yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440619808 14720 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2015 20:10:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:10:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 26 22:10:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUh1F-0005L7-DZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:10:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUh1E-00036u-QY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUh13-00036o-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUh0z-0000l8-8u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUh0z-0000l3-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUh0w-000565-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:09:42 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:09:42 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:09:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MuCKc3UeaIyw4gUJA72FJ83O1Xg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106858 Archived-At: Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: > A positive number is a number bigger than zero. Zero is not > bigger than zero, so it is not a positive number. It is also not > a negative number, since it is not smaller than zero. Although in French 0 is "positif" which is the equivalent of "non-negative" in English. -- Jorge.