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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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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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24
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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33
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
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59
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
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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
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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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119
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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130
131	Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
132
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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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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165
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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176
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
181
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183
184	"[...] So please do not delete anything."
185	"Done."
186	-- RMS and David Kastrup

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