From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:36:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86blno9yle.wl-me@enzu.ru> <87d0845msg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87h7xgjasw.fsf@yahoo.com> <0B01B576-3DC7-4FAE-8010-C9B5CB6BA024@icloud.com> <87d084htcf.fsf@yahoo.com> <149F5B4D-F219-409C-A994-096C777259EC@icloud.com> <87v9lweynz.fsf@yahoo.com> <74B639DD-3775-4BE7-B0B2-300B5CE62E14@icloud.com> <87k12bewpq.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rnacxr.fsf@yahoo.com> <877dyaye21.fsf@yahoo.com> <87blnlbnba.fsf@yahoo.com> <87v9lsqgqw.fsf@yahoo.com> <87eesdfdpv.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="120018"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: me@enzu.ru, joseph.h.garvin@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, pcr910303@icloud.com, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, ndame@protonmail.com To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=C3=A9vin?= Le Gouguec Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 05:37:03 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBcl-000V6x-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:37:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57678 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBck-0004zy-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBc0-0003or-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBby-0003Cs-6z; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBbn-0003eo-Vf; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:36:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eesdfdpv.fsf@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=C3?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9vin?= Le Gouguec on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:13:48 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247743 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > # The file name eintr must fit within 5 characters, to allow for > # -NN extensions to fit into DOS 8+3 limits without clashing. Thanks for finding the reason. Eli, does this name length matter any more? Is the Emacs Lisp Intro long enough that it needs to generate subfiles named with two digits? Could we make it generate suffixes -N instead? Then we could call it ELINTR. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)