From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Le Wang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Irrelevant digression [was: Re: bug in elisp... or in elisper???] Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:52:47 +0800 Message-ID: References: <8739mek95g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4D8A1007.5070606@mousecar.com> <87d3lhhmnj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4D8A2290.5010402@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300899202 10279 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 16:53:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, David Kastrup To: gebser@mousecar.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 17:53:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2RJ8-0003Qz-8g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:53:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2RJ7-0000SI-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59828 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2RIk-0000S8-W2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2RIj-0000X4-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:35899) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2RIh-0000UR-Ls; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: by vxk12 with SMTP id 12so7786242vxk.0 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=H2MelS2VRVVzFLMsBns8R3LpnvPXEolHTvbSKnmy8uY=; b=npdpu6PuR6oYZXUPdOB142H3g+NBD8cYNmn+DBhEQWefR1VfF+pwdYvxpEHUEVoghQ 4qeDJxwuCyd7xwm9kakjW/8uHeA65yjb4IWA0eUVhYa1YD5Z+6nwoCFz0azqFzQuczM2 T/pDpdouwkn1dfZzctEKqxRcLy6sWSGNAZTdg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=IBI+Hf3o7IlXmp8bzydw2ueZTwT9FsoVIglXCURYR+U7Oa6fbIH8XfykwTUKpCmGKq EUmXUVdYX6y8v55BTzM/0LlasoVSlWCL4yugcuV76IxXvxRQ1SUt/wjIamI4gLf5smDz n2FM8icXFcRLqlduuNC1x3hcxMbIyfEw76cuQ= Original-Received: by 10.52.0.5 with SMTP id 5mr7465892vda.120.1300899167754; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.166.5 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:52:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D8A2290.5010402@mousecar.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.220.169 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80345 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:40 AM, ken wrote: > I read dozens of pages and see no gain or merit in reading back through > all of them to verify what I read You don't see any merit to removing misinformation so that others who do the same search as you aren't led down the wrong path? Isn't that why we are here, to help each other better use Emacs? Provide the link, so we can go about trying to get the author to change his documentation. At a minimum, when people search for that link in particular, they'll see this thread on gmane. -- Le