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bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible
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Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible |
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Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:53:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> One last attempt to get past the mauvaise foi...
>
> This var is a `PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB' sign for the user's hotel
> room.
>
> Nothing prevents firemen from entering. Maids know that their
> services are not important enough to ignore a do-not-disturb |
> no-molestar | ne-pas-deranger | nao-perturbe | non-disturbare
> request. This knowledge is built into their code.
>
> Firemen do not even notice the sign. Maids actively keep an
> eye out for it - that's part of their job.
>
> The user is a tempermental, often drunk&drugged musician who
> has a manager. The manager code hangs the sign on the door
> when appropriate. The maid code recognizes the sign and is
> polite enough not to enter to perform routine housekeeping.
>
> Icomplete is a musician manager. Tramp is a hotel maid.
I insist in being informed in German. "Bitte nicht stören". Otherwise, I
do whatever I want to do.
> (defvar do-not-disturb nil
> "Non-nil is a sign to avoid disturbing the user.
> Code that performs a relatively unimportant action that might
> disturb the user can check this variable and choose not to act
> when it is non-nil.
It is not about "disturbing". If non-essential^W^W do-not-disturb is
non-nil, Tramp does not open a remote connection. That's all until now,
and that's the reason I have asked for this kind of variable.
> The week after next we will study Homeland Security Advisory System
> threat levels: `severe', `high', `significant', `general', and `low'.
Oh, surprise. I thought there's only the threat level `severe'.
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, (continued)
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- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/29
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Andreas Schwab, 2010/10/29
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/29
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Andy Moreton, 2010/10/29
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/30
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Drew Adams, 2010/10/30
- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible,
Michael Albinus <=
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- bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/10/29
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