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From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Do we need a "Stevens" book?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:50:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8900246b-7ee7-4149-88a5-9f036c4f3edc@l25g2000prn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.0.1280385826.20966.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Jul 29, 11:40 am, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> wrote:
> () Olwe Melwasul <hercynianfor...@gmail.com>
> () Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:42:14 -0500
>
>    Okay, I can Google [...]
>
> Why does the search start with Google (and continue with other
> downstream, non-terminating, whirlpool-shaped, out of date, referenda)?
> Why not go to the source?  The Emacs Lisp manual, the Emacs Lisp code,
> the Emacs customization facility, the Emacs *scratch* buffer, the Emacs!

Because google searches the world wide web faster and better (usually)
than me searching my info dir
Unfortunately 'usually' is not 'always' -- hence Olwe's wish is valid

>
>    Personally I've been admiring Emacs from afar for quite some time.
>
> Pirsig sez: Quality is the moment of perception.
> Afar dilutes this.  Stop it.

My comint.el reads at 3538 lines.
Also a
$ find ~/local/share/emacs/23.1/lisp -name '*.el.gz'  |  xargs zcat
|  wc -l
returns 1076048

Spelt out, thats a million lines of elisp only in the default emacs
install

Now what exactly were you saying?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 16:42 Do we need a "Stevens" book? Olwe Melwasul
2010-07-28 17:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-28 17:48 ` Richard Riley
2010-07-29  6:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-30 12:28   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-31  4:47     ` Ken Hori
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1280385826.20966.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-29  9:50   ` rustom [this message]
2010-07-29 10:02   ` Elena
     [not found]     ` <35282104-5b51-4ba4-8745-4fae239ce0ee@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-30  5:29       ` Fren Zeee
2010-07-31  5:47       ` have you read emacs manual cover to cover?; (was Do we need a "Stevens" book?) Xah Lee
     [not found]       ` <63e9cab8-17da-4f1a-b055-e172a3ffeb47@o7g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
2010-08-08 12:02         ` Xah Lee
     [not found] <mailman.1.1280335348.2485.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-28 17:01 ` Do we need a "Stevens" book? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-28 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-01 17:07   ` Joseph Brenner

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