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3 | -- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list -- | |
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5 | -- The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this file, -- |
6 | -- compiled from the public emacs-devel mailing list. -- | |
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9 | ||
10 | "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of | |
11 | zero?" | |
12 | "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely | |
13 | invalid for an interval to have zero length." | |
14 | -- Miles Bader and RMS | |
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17 | ||
18 | Re: lost argument and doc string | |
19 | ||
20 | I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-). | |
21 | -- RMS | |
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25 | "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an | |
26 | adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather | |
27 | than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general | |
28 | temperament." | |
29 | "Mine does." | |
30 | -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii | |
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34 | "In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an | |
35 | item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just | |
36 | thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, | |
37 | blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in." | |
38 | "How about dancing elephants?" | |
39 | "They don't fit in my office." | |
40 | "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much... | |
41 | bigger." | |
42 | -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann | |
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45 | ||
46 | I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles | |
47 | and mile-stones?). | |
48 | -- Kai Grossjohann | |
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51 | ||
52 | "I think it depends on video drivers. I cannot reproduce it on my | |
53 | home PC, but I can at work." | |
54 | "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need | |
55 | a homearound at home. ;-)" | |
56 | -- Jason Rumney and RMS | |
57 | ||
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60 | By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem. | |
61 | Sometimes I think I should have opposed to the introduction of such a | |
62 | concept more strongly. | |
63 | ||
64 | imagine there's no unibyte | |
65 | it's easy if you try | |
66 | no bytes below us | |
67 | above us only chars | |
68 | imagine all the people living in multibyte | |
69 | ||
70 | -- Kenichi Handa | |
71 | ||
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73 | ||
74 | I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American, | |
75 | but every year I get less and less help from the United States. | |
76 | -- RMS | |
77 | ||
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79 | ||
80 | "If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, then it | |
81 | doesn't make sense to follow it." | |
82 | "Nevertheless, until now, we always did." | |
83 | "So.... should we not fix old bugs?" | |
84 | "Why fix an old bug if you can write three new ones in the same | |
85 | time?" | |
86 | -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup | |
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89 | ||
90 | [...] As is well known, people who speak American English tend to | |
91 | be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits | |
92 | transferring those redundant "u"s. | |
93 | Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the | |
94 | Emacs tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be | |
95 | downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived, ...that's a substantial | |
96 | saving. | |
97 | -- Stefan Monnier | |
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100 | ||
101 | Re: Parent of a derived mode's keymap. | |
102 | ||
103 | "I can't decide whether the title of this thread is more fitting for | |
104 | a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama." | |
105 | "Hey, it says derived, not deprived." | |
106 | "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better." | |
107 | "I knew it! You're one of them vi lovers! There is nothing wrong | |
108 | with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!" | |
109 | -- David Kastrup and Lute Kamstra | |
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112 | ||
113 | "Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?" | |
114 | "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers, | |
115 | this is a variable concept ;-)" | |
116 | -- Juanma Barranquero and Thien-Thi Nguyen | |
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120 | "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction." | |
121 | "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means | |
122 | 'obsolete'." | |
123 | "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with | |
124 | 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of | |
125 | course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might | |
126 | have escaped John's notice." | |
127 | -- David Kastrup and RMS | |
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131 | Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point) |
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133 | "Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear |
134 | also for people not familiar with `woman'." | |
135 | "Most hackers, I take? | |
136 | For a moment there I thought you had a patch that you could put on | |
137 | a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point | |
138 | without attempting any course of action that requires an advance | |
139 | course in divination. | |
140 | There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." | |
141 | -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup | |
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144 | ||
145 | "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for | |
146 | this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]" | |
147 | "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do | |
148 | you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?" | |
149 | "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P" | |
150 | -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier | |
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153 | ||
154 | "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or | |
155 | decrease readability. It's a tossup." | |
156 | "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have | |
157 | j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is | |
158 | readable? | |
159 | Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with | |
160 | serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as | |
161 | synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?" | |
162 | -- RMS and David Kastrup | |
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166 | Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango | |
167 | ||
168 | "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?" | |
169 | "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time." | |
170 | "Isn't it already?" | |
171 | "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is | |
172 | still out about that end of time thing." | |
173 | -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup | |
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177 | "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such | |
178 | constants with anything like the universality of e and pi." | |
179 | "42" | |
180 | -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen | |
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183 | ||
184 | "[...] So please do not delete anything." | |
185 | "Done." | |
186 | -- RMS and David Kastrup | |
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189 | ||
190 | "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the | |
191 | printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer | |
192 | drivers?" | |
193 | "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of | |
e11ebb0c | 194 | depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I |
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195 | wouldn't worry about it too much." |
196 | -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney |