Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Tue, Mar 01 2011, Cthun wrote:

> On 28/02/2011 4:53 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>  writes:
>>
>>>>>>> This is nothing to do with being an academic. What happens when, for
>>>>>>> instance, a novel is being published? The author sends it to the
>>>>>>> publisher, who sends back a copy with various changes, which the author
>>>>>>> then either accepts, accepts in some modified form, or rejects. This
>>>>>>> process is then iterated several times.
>>>>>> And this process does not involve a CVS repository.
>>>>> With me, it nowadays usually involves a git repository.  I used CVS
>>>>> previously, but that is less convenient.
>>>> You're insane.
>>>
>>> No
>
> What does Monnier's classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have
> to do with Lisp, Kastrup?

I started out sympathetic to your argument, but by this point you've
motivated me to dig up the gnus manual section on scoring, just to learn
how to mute you.