From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Andy Moreton' <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:53:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739rnlg7h.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6EF41FA484C34DC2AAE23367231A3C84@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:16:16 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> One last attempt to get past the mauvaise foi...
>
> This var is a `PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB' sign for the user's hotel
> room.
>
> Nothing prevents firemen from entering. Maids know that their
> services are not important enough to ignore a do-not-disturb |
> no-molestar | ne-pas-deranger | nao-perturbe | non-disturbare
> request. This knowledge is built into their code.
>
> Firemen do not even notice the sign. Maids actively keep an
> eye out for it - that's part of their job.
>
> The user is a tempermental, often drunk&drugged musician who
> has a manager. The manager code hangs the sign on the door
> when appropriate. The maid code recognizes the sign and is
> polite enough not to enter to perform routine housekeeping.
>
> Icomplete is a musician manager. Tramp is a hotel maid.
I insist in being informed in German. "Bitte nicht stören". Otherwise, I
do whatever I want to do.
> (defvar do-not-disturb nil
> "Non-nil is a sign to avoid disturbing the user.
> Code that performs a relatively unimportant action that might
> disturb the user can check this variable and choose not to act
> when it is non-nil.
It is not about "disturbing". If non-essential^W^W do-not-disturb is
non-nil, Tramp does not open a remote connection. That's all until now,
and that's the reason I have asked for this kind of variable.
> The week after next we will study Homeland Security Advisory System
> threat levels: `severe', `high', `significant', `general', and `low'.
Oh, surprise. I thought there's only the threat level `severe'.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-30 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 22:30 bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible Drew Adams
2010-10-28 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-28 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-28 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-28 18:43 ` Michael Albinus
2010-10-28 18:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-28 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-28 21:58 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-29 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-29 8:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-29 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-29 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-29 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-29 23:00 ` Andy Moreton
2010-10-30 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-30 16:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-30 17:53 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2010-10-30 20:05 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-29 18:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-28 17:33 ` James Cloos
2010-10-28 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-14 14:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-31 2:34 ` MON KEY
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