From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:11:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <17559.3981.585147.420082@chlr6710.ch.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150841617 1318 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2006 22:13:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: amscott1@sedona.ch.intel.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 00:13:35 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 1FsoTM-0003yG-5b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:13:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsoTL-0007if-G7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FsoT8-0007iE-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FsoT8-0007i0-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsoT8-0007hx-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fsodi-0000Ll-R8; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 187078A000E; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:13:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:56:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:56043 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Maybe it sounds harsh, but the originals are often pretty inspired, > and it's not that easy to quickly churn outs stuff that's equally good; > if we distribute a file filled with randomly solicited replacements, I > expect the result will disappoint those people who use yow. > > How about if the people who want to replace it set themselves up as a > committee to choose the best proposals. They can make another mailing > list; then we won't discuss it further on this list. Any old pinhead fan can just copy the yow.lines file from their existing emacs installation into emacs 22. New users will _not_ miss it. So why are we discussing this issue. We need to fix the text in the stripped yow.lines, as it no longer consists of any Zippy quotations: Current text reads: A data base Zippy the pinhead might love. Everything up to the first ascii \000 (`null') character is a comment. The file consists of Zippy quotations (from various comic books and strips by Bill Griffith) followed by a null character. Newline characters following a quotation are ignored and are present only for readability. Have FUN! I suggest this text instead: This is the data base for the yow.el package. It used to contain Zippy quotations (from various comic books and strips by Bill Griffith), but these have been removed due to legal concerns. Everything up to the first ascii \000 (`null') character is a comment. The file should consist of blocks of text, each followed by a null character. Newline characters following a null character are ignored and are present only for readability. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk