From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> <87lhil2io1.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <878uek3mvb.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87619jffgy.fsf@debian.uxu> <87lhifxl01.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427685337 13564 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2015 03:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:15:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 05:15:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YcQAa-0005bR-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 05:15:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcQAZ-0006c7-ES for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:15:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.70.96.163 with SMTP id dt3mr35835564pdb.1.1427685141310; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:12:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.148.98 with SMTP id tr2mr141667igb.3.1427685141274; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no1119546igd.0!news-out.google.com!q14ni2914ign.0!nntp.google.com!h15no658015igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87lhifxl01.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.63.4; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.63.4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 03:12:21 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211157 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103438 Archived-At: On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 8:22:04 AM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon wro= te: > Emanuel Berg writes: >=20 > > "Pascal J. Bourguignon"=20 > > writes: > > > >> I've got a few "electric" key bindings like that, > >> for example, when I type three dots in a sequence, > >> I get ... > > > > And when you type two "l"s in a row, do you get > > a special char inserted for that as well? I'm sure > > there is a Unicode char with two parallel vertical > > bars. Isn't that an even better idea than the three > > dots one, because it appears much more frequently? No? > > Why not? >=20 > It's not a question of typing fast, it's a question of typing easy. > It's easier to type ... to get ...=20 > than to type C-x 8 RET HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS RET >=20 In http://blog.languager.org/2015/01/unicode-and-universe.html I have written about 3 mutually exclusive and exhaustive prisons 1. idiocy of ignorance 2. slavery to savantery 3. prison of penury They correspond to: 1 Dummy To sell one's computer and work (and soul?) to a proprietary format and= =20 word-processing software like Word 2 Wizard To master something arcnae such as latex (or mathml, lilypond, troff...= ) 3 Programmer Everything that is worth expressing can be expressed in ASCII. IOW... God made ASCII. All the rest is the work of man. For a long time I used to be in category 3. But of late I am rethinking=B9 this position... "Shakespeare is a better author than Gabriel Garc=EDa M=E1rquez"=B2 seems a fine judgment to make. "Shakespeare is a better author than Gabriel Garc=EDa M=E1rquez because he = used ASCII" seems not so fine. I know many people who would say Shakespeare was illiterate because he did= =20 not know how to use Word. I think he is even more illiterate since he could never master the use of a cell-phone. ---------------- =B9 A rethinking for which emacs' neat input-methods is at least partly res= ponsible =B2 I would have used Voltaire as example. Gabriel Garc=EDa M=E1rquez makes= my point in the name itself!