From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility Date: 07 Jul 2006 12:04:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44ACE1B5.10909@easy-emacs.de> <44ADFFEF.6050204@easy-emacs.de> <44AE2051.6080308@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152288504 26576 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2006 16:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 07 18:08:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fyss3-0005Df-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:07:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fyss3-0004nD-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fysp2-0002ST-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fysp1-0002RH-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fysp1-0002RC-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FyspS-0006LL-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Fysoz-0002GJ-RO; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:04:49 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Roehler In-Reply-To: <44AE2051.6080308@easy-emacs.de> Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56731 Archived-At: Andreas Roehler writes: > If we agree that scattered general-purpose-functions > exist, one of the interesting questions is: Why? writing code can be fun for its own sake. often people take this joy and it fills them enough so that other joys become uninteresting to pursue. emacs can accomodate these redundancies and slowly over time unify them as their frequency passes the threshold of someone else's joy-driven needs, and thus is a live example of pluralistic freedom. personally, i think re-organizing things as mostly uninteresting. however, a program that would do the re-organizing i'd read w/ pleasure. thi