* etc/NEWS: Maybe ert-summarize-tests-batch-and-exit worth mentioning.

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / DEVEL.HUMOR

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@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 --                                                                  --
 -- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list       --
 --                                                                  --
+-- The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this file,   --
+-- compiled from the public emacs-devel mailing list.               --
+--                                                                  --
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   "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of
@@ -125,6 +128,8 @@ have escaped John's notice."
 
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+Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
+
   "Sorry for the long message.  I wanted to make the problem clear
 also for people not familiar with `woman'."
   "Most hackers, I take?
@@ -134,3 +139,66 @@ without attempting any course of action that requires an advance
 course in divination.
    There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
                                     -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
+this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
+  "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c.  Do
+you really mean 'line 789'?  Of which revision?"
+  "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
+                                   -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
+decrease readability.  It's a tossup."
+  "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
+j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
+readable?
+   Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
+serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
+synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
+                                              -- RMS and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Re: New Emacs Icon and Tango
+
+  "What about using the 'happy face' with gnu horns?"
+  "It would make Emacs the object of ridicule until the end of time."
+  "Isn't it already?"
+  "It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_.  The jury is
+still out about that end of time thing."
+                 -- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such
+constants with anything like the universality of e and pi."
+  "42"
+                                -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[...] So please do not delete anything."
+  "Done."
+                                              -- RMS and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the
+printer drivers.  Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer
+drivers?"
+  "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of
+depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I
+wouldn't worry about it too much."
+                                -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "... a non-CS-educated guy like me ..."
+
+  "Kind of late, but thanks for letting us know.  I've just revoked your
+  write access to the repository for the obvious safety reasons,"
+                                -- Bastien Guerry and Stefan Monnier