From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fire defun by typing keyword Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 02:14:33 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k3gipe99.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <871u33mqj0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87zjpjmuhj.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87k3gmbhjk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87d2mdma8f.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <1b9c3e40-fcbf-4759-a5c7-e4494ac5858e@googlegroups.com> <50960452-63dc-4283-8ab3-b505156200ae@googlegroups.com> <87habornym.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <62b2fa06-e106-44b9-9e3d-41b2ab01ef84@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383959714 20799 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2013 01:15:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 01:15:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 09 02:15:20 2013 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 1Vex8y-0000Ll-9u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 02:15:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vex8x-00089K-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:15:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UNtdlS+T8+b9pEqUw0+r01/9XN0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202138 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:94409 Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: > Yeah I am (one of the many) fed up with gnome trying > to look-n-feel like a cheap button phone without the > buttons. I once went to the bathhouse, and in the associated shop, I asked the shopkeeper what the difference was between the expensive and the cheap goggles. Withouth hesitating an instant, the answer came from the holser: "The wrapping." Programming should be about applications that don't exist, but, if they *did* exist, would make for better lives for more people. But, if, for example, you are very much into e-mailing - and there are already so many e-mail clients! That's OK, because none of them is perfect. It is just easy to put your efforts into one of them, namely the one you yourself use. "Look and feel" is just the final polish on the top surface. If configuration is possible, as it always is for any good application, it could be left entirely to the user. "Look and feel" should *never* be the purpose or reason for programming - of many unpleasant words to describe that, "absurd" is the most pleasant. Reinvention of the (blue) wheel is reinvention of the (red) wheel. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573