From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: code listp to determine wich os I'm running on Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:11:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mwiettum.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <52E97CEA.4060901@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391040744 23488 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2014 00:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:12:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 30 01:12:31 2014 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 1W8fF8-0006dM-7v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:12:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8fF7-00027l-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53765) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8fEp-00027a-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8fEi-0002N6-3l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:12:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57541) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8fEh-0002Mw-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W8fEh-0006Nt-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:12:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-152-57.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.152.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:12:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-152-57.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:12:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-152-57.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9UQ4uybLsRWfMn2jhKqb766v+Sg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:95774 Archived-At: > It does,t works... :-( Even if you correct it to "it doesn't work" it still doesn't say much about what does not satisfy you. IOW remember that "it doesn't work" is not a good way to ask for help because that doesn't give enough info to those who might help you. I wish I could point to a "doesnt-work-considered-harmful" diatribe. Stefan