From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yow.c Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:05:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87zmgf6umy.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> References: <87irn51bjs.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150337149 19710 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2006 02:05:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 04:05:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqhEw-0003d4-E8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:05:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqhEv-0005DE-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqhEk-0005Cc-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqhEg-0005As-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqhEf-0005AZ-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [24.116.0.230] (helo=S4.cableone.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqhNx-0002Vi-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from vh213602.truman.edu.truman.edu (unverified [24.116.73.175]) by S4.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S4) with ESMTP id 62586462 for multiple; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:05:27 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:20:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NotAscii: charset=us-ascii X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 9, First 27, in=5, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.116.73.175 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55908 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Please don't. I use yow.el with a local file to print funny one-line > error messages, i.e. what I do is > > It doesn't make sense to keep the yow function in such a way > that when run in the usual way it won't work. > > However, if we replace yow.lines with our own nonsequiturs, that would > be a fine solution (as I said before). Please, people, go ahead. As near as I can tell, the Zippyisms are bizarre phrases with random words in all-caps. I'm sure there's more to it than that, though. What sort of lines belong in yow.lines? Jay