Re: drew.adams@oracle.com: bug in read-kbd-macro

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> Sorry, I cannot always afford to read everything, especially if the
>>> messages are very long.
>>
>> Amen.
>>
>> Drew, you should really think about trying to be less verbose,
>> especially on minor issues like this.
>
> I'd have used "bellicose".  One of the problems is that people just
> skip those long discussions, and it does not help if the replies keep
> repeating points all over.  This annoys all people involved including
> Drew, because he fails to understand why people end up neither
> countering nor supporting his points.
>
> In an ideal world, one makes one's point one time, people form an
> opinion once everything has been said once, come to a decision and act
> on it.

I told Drew a long time ago that I would most likely skip his lengthy
messages -- not due to lack of interest or because I considered them
unimportant -- but simply because I don't have time and energy to do so.

Writing "a lot" is not a guarantee that your will "get your message across".

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk