From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fork Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Couple of automation questions Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87tya8yyhc.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87sjpry7p1.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311787463 845 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 17:24:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:24:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 19:24:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm7qE-00058O-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:24:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm7qE-0008ER-2o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:24:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm7q8-0008Dj-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm7q7-0001xi-1v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm7q6-0001x2-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm7q4-00053A-69 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:24:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.239.99.92 ([198.239.99.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:24:08 +0200 Original-Received: from forkandwait by 198.239.99.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:24:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 198.239.99.92 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81811 Archived-At: Teemu Likonen iki.fi> writes: > > sed + awk + tr + shell scripting might be a better fit for > > automatically beautifying log files though > > We are Lisp people, right? Then we could use Common Lisp too. Indeed! Often it is a trade off between aesthetics and pragmatics, but in terms of grace, Lisp is the hands down winner in that match up.