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From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: learning Emacs Lisp
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:32:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6ccc191-5619-4143-9b3f-84c357cec386@c2g2000pra.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: QbudnVQF_ZfJv4fUnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net

Xah Lee wrote:
> > (to me, it is entirely distracting because i do not have working
> > familiarity with Common Lisp or C, nor do i care about them. However,
> > i'm the world's top expert in Mathematica, but vast majority of
> > potential readers of elisp doc are not familiar with Mathematica.)

B. T. Raven wrote:

> I thought that Stephen Wolfram (author of _A New Kind of Science_) was
> the top expert.

Yes, he's one of the top expert in programing Mathematica.

> Is this another exaggeration like the statistics you
> pull out of a hat?: e.g. "99.9999% of all southpaws are touch typists."

did u pull that out of a hat?

> Remember that all majorities are not "vast," in fact the vast majority
> of them are not even majorities but only pluralities.

pluralities? how about multitudality? News: Xah discovered that
multitudality of tech geekers are idiotic when it comes to critical
thinking.

can you try the command-frequency.el and let me know your results?
because recently someone made it into a full featured minor mode and
it's now very easy to use. It also saves between emacs restart.

bottom: http://xahlee.org/emacs/command-frequency.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-10 15:21 Grouping related buffers Corey Foote
2008-11-10 16:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-10 17:24   ` Corey Foote
2008-11-10 18:05     ` learning Emacs Lisp [was: Grouping related buffers] Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9.1226340315.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-10 18:27       ` learning Emacs Lisp Richard Riley
2008-11-10 19:22         ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-10 19:48           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]         ` <mailman.17.1226345002.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-10 19:36           ` Richard Riley
2008-11-10 20:59             ` Niels Giesen
2008-11-10 21:24               ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11  4:07               ` Xah
2008-11-12  0:24                 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-12  3:32                   ` Xah [this message]
2008-11-11  6:49               ` Wei Weng
2008-11-11 18:58                 ` Niels Giesen
2008-11-11  4:56             ` Andreas Politz
2008-11-11  8:48               ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11  9:57                 ` Andreas Politz
2008-11-11 10:14                 ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.58.1226398497.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-11 10:34                   ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11 10:43                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-11 11:04                   ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11 11:17                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-10 18:26 ` Grouping related buffers Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1226335408.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-13 13:09   ` Stefan Kamphausen

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