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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?
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Julian Bradfield |
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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? |
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Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:28:50 +0000 (UTC) |
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["Followup-To:" header set to comp.emacs, since this has nothing to do
with lisp - an option which you curiously have never chosen, despite
repeated complaints about it not being to do with lisp. ]
On 2011-02-27, Cthun <cthun_117@qmail.net.au> wrote:
> On 27/02/2011 10:46 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Last time I looked, revision control did not concern itself with builds
>> or library dependencies or bug reports or feature requests.
>
> Sure it does.
You're confusing a source code management system with revision
control aka version control. RCS is a version control system - nothing
else.
>> Uh, you already forgot what I wrote about the various versions of
>> articles
>
> No, it's simply not relevant. Articles are typically written, revised,
> and eventually *finished*.
Have you ever actually written an academic article?
> Articles are not typically published with "bugs" and then later
> republished without them. Typical articles are published once and then
> that's it.
You're not an academic, are you?
>>> In short there's almost nothing of what source code control systems
>>> are actually there for. If you want to be able to recover deleted
>>> material you use strikethru (and delete anything still in strikethru
>>> when it's done) or cut it and save it to a clippings file or
>>> something.
>>
>> Gross. You are not confusing word processing on a computer with
>> handwritten manuscripts by chance?
As David says, gross. What is "strikethru" anyway?
> Of course not. You on the other hand seem to be confusing word
> processing with software development!
Only those who don't know any better use word processors to write
articles. I'm sure David doesn't use a word processor.
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, (continued)
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, PJ Weisberg, 2011/02/27
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- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, rusi, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/28
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, rusi, 2011/02/28
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Uday Reddy, 2011/02/28
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, David Kastrup, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Cthun, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?,
Julian Bradfield <=
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Cthun, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Cthun, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Robert D. Crawford, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Tim Bradshaw, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Cthun, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, David Kastrup, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Cthun, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/02/27
- Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?, David Kastrup, 2011/02/28