From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,
jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting font to Lucida Grande on Mac OS X
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:36:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8wh2jpu.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A0pFM-0005ra-AM@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:26:28 -0400")
>>>>> "rms" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
However, matching is
! implementation-dependent, and often inaccurate, when wildcards match
! dashes in a long name. It works best if you supply all 14 dashes.
rms> The first sentence seems to imply that wildcards are so
rms> unreliable that you should never use them. It is clearer to
rms> say
No, it's not. On some platforms, wildcards that match dashes _are_ so
inaccurate that you should never use them in production code. Luc
gave an example. However, it may be convenient for interactive or
one-shot code use, or if it works in an init file.
rms> However, matching is implementation-dependent, and can
rms> be inaccurate when wildcards match dashes in a long name.
rms> For reliable results, supply all 14 dashes and use wildcards
rms> only within a field.
The second sentence is a distinct improvement (especially as it
implies partial matching in a field, which often is useful, such as
...-jisx0208*-0 to catch names which specify the year of the
standard), but I recommend that the first sentence be left as is.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-22 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-14 22:43 Setting font to Lucida Grande on Mac OS X Sancho Neves-Graca
2003-09-14 23:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 5:55 ` Andrew Choi
2003-09-15 15:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-16 1:19 ` Sancho Neves-Graca
2003-09-16 3:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-17 2:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-17 12:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-17 12:49 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-17 16:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-18 15:14 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-19 11:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-09-19 14:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-19 15:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 7:50 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-20 12:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 13:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-19 15:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-19 22:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 21:27 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-21 1:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-22 10:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-09-22 18:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-22 22:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-22 23:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-20 3:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-18 11:05 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-14 23:09 Sancho Neves-Graca
2003-09-14 23:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-14 23:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 4:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 4:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-15 4:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
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