From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: on ``An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp''
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:22:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mdrh8zq.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb687y6s.fsf@debian.uxu>
On 2016-02-02, at 01:28, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> I'd like to point out that one nice benefit of
>> compiling from source (apart from staying on the
>> bleeding edge) ...
>
> There can be many definitions of "staying on the
> bleeding edge". One is: using software to be active,
> creative and productive with *your own projects* that
> perhaps nobody else knows about, until you release it
> for everyone to see and (sometimes) use.
>
> Using the latest releases of everything, including
> hardware components, is something some people take
> pride in.
>
> But often this is actually something that one
> shouldn't do because it is an obstacle to the own
> activity which benefits from reliable, familiar tools.
Fair enough.
I have to say, though, that the alleged unreliability of the development
version of Emacs has yet to hit me.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-02 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-26 18:08 on ``An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp'' Daniel Bastos
2016-01-28 23:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-29 2:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-29 12:38 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-01-29 13:20 ` Paul Smith
2016-01-29 20:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-29 22:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-30 9:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-30 9:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-30 0:23 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-30 9:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-30 14:19 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-01-31 20:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-01 11:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-02 0:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-02 7:22 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-02-02 22:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-03 9:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-03 20:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-04 16:37 ` Nick Dokos
[not found] ` <mailman.3524.1454529667.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-03 20:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-02-04 1:15 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.3489.1454491565.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-03 11:43 ` Daniel Bastos
2016-02-03 20:08 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.3404.1454397765.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-02 11:43 ` Rusi
[not found] ` <mailman.3321.1454324852.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-01 12:07 ` on specifying the C source code directory (Was: Re: on ``An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp'') Daniel Bastos
2016-02-01 12:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-01 12:32 ` tomas
2016-02-01 13:54 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-01 16:42 ` on specifying the C source code directory Daniel Bastos
2016-02-02 0:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-02 7:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-02 23:04 ` defvar and "assignment to free variable" (was: Re: on specifying the C source code directory) Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.3326.1454332068.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-02 11:57 ` on specifying the C source code directory Daniel Bastos
2016-02-02 11:52 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.3168.1454113433.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-30 3:20 ` on ``An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp'' Rusi
[not found] ` <mailman.3104.1454025553.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-29 20:29 ` Javier
2016-01-30 3:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-01-30 9:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-30 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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