From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp macros problem Date: 26 Jul 2004 06:05:03 +0200 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ekmz2z2o.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <877jsrsfa0.fsf@nyct.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090814842 12549 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 04:07:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 04:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 06:07:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bowlb-0002Fp-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 06:07:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bowoc-0005og-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:10:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.lisp User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=Oig4aHUHDYOM1fR^OZQSGI0mDM\=e`RhHm9FY3?HjZ5@ Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124454 comp.lang.lisp:144204 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19790 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19790 Lowell Kirsh writes: > Rahul Jain wrote: > > You probably mean "why does this not do X?" but you never tell us what X > > is, so we don't know how to help you achieve that. > > What I meant was why does this not do the obvoious thing I want it to do... Perhaps because telepathic computers have not been invented yet? Erase that. Perhaps because telepathic computers are not on the shelf items yet, and you don't work for the US Air Force, therefore you don't have one? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein