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3 | -- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list -- | |
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6 | ||
7 | "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of | |
8 | zero?" | |
9 | "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely | |
10 | invalid for an interval to have zero length." | |
11 | -- Miles Bader and RMS | |
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14 | ||
15 | Re: lost argument and doc string | |
16 | ||
17 | I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-). | |
18 | -- RMS | |
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21 | ||
22 | "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an | |
23 | adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather | |
24 | than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general | |
25 | temperament." | |
26 | "Mine does." | |
27 | -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii | |
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30 | ||
31 | "In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an | |
32 | item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just | |
33 | thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, | |
34 | blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in." | |
35 | "How about dancing elephants?" | |
36 | "They don't fit in my office." | |
37 | "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much... | |
38 | bigger." | |
39 | -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann | |
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42 | ||
43 | I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles | |
44 | and mile-stones?). | |
45 | -- Kai Grossjohann | |
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48 | ||
49 | "I think it depends on video drivers. I cannot reproduce it on my | |
50 | home PC, but I can at work." | |
51 | "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need | |
52 | a homearound at home. ;-)" | |
53 | -- Jason Rumney and RMS | |
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56 | ||
57 | By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem. | |
58 | Sometimes I think I should have opposed to the introduction of such a | |
59 | concept more strongly. | |
60 | ||
61 | imagine there's no unibyte | |
62 | it's easy if you try | |
63 | no bytes below us | |
64 | above us only chars | |
65 | imagine all the people living in multibyte | |
66 | ||
67 | -- Kenichi Handa | |
68 | ||
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70 | ||
71 | I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American, | |
72 | but every year I get less and less help from the United States. | |
73 | -- RMS | |
74 | ||
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76 | ||
77 | "If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, then it | |
78 | doesn't make sense to follow it." | |
79 | "Nevertheless, until now, we always did." | |
80 | "So.... should we not fix old bugs?" | |
81 | "Why fix an old bug if you can write three new ones in the same | |
82 | time?" | |
83 | -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup | |
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86 | ||
87 | [...] As is well known, people who speak American English tend to | |
88 | be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits | |
89 | transferring those redundant "u"s. | |
90 | Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the | |
91 | Emacs tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be | |
92 | downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived, ...that's a substantial | |
93 | saving. | |
94 | -- Stefan Monnier | |
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97 | ||
98 | Re: Parent of a derived mode's keymap. | |
99 | ||
100 | "I can't decide whether the title of this thread is more fitting for | |
101 | a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama." | |
102 | "Hey, it says derived, not deprived." | |
103 | "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better." | |
104 | "I knew it! You're one of them vi lovers! There is nothing wrong | |
105 | with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!" | |
106 | -- David Kastrup and Lute Kamstra | |
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109 | ||
110 | "Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?" | |
111 | "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers, | |
112 | this is a variable concept ;-)" | |
113 | -- Juanma Barranquero and Thien-Thi Nguyen | |
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116 | ||
117 | "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction." | |
118 | "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means | |
119 | 'obsolete'." | |
120 | "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with | |
121 | 'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of | |
122 | course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might | |
123 | have escaped John's notice." | |
124 | -- David Kastrup and RMS | |
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127 | ||
128 | "Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear | |
129 | also for people not familiar with `woman'." | |
130 | "Most hackers, I take? | |
131 | For a moment there I thought you had a patch that you could put on | |
132 | a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point | |
133 | without attempting any course of action that requires an advance | |
134 | course in divination. | |
135 | There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." | |
136 | -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup |