From: Juanma Barranquero Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:31:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: New file for (sometimes unintended) humor in the Emacs developer's list. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~223 X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/commitdiff_plain/e2fc34ada311d4d4ec741fef07e048f974a88bd8 New file for (sometimes unintended) humor in the Emacs developer's list. --- diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4e802312c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +---------------- -*- mode: text; coding: utf-8; fill-column: 70 -*- -- +-- -- +-- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list -- +-- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of +zero?" + "We can't be arrested for it as far as I know, but it is definitely +invalid for an interval to have zero length." + -- Miles Bader and RMS + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Re: lost argument and doc string + +I remember when I lost an argument. Boy did that hurt! ;-). + -- RMS + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "'Cowardly' is not an adverb, although it looks like one. It is an +adjective. It makes a statement about general temperament, rather +than a specific occasion. I don't think Emacs has a general +temperament." + "Mine does." + -- RMS and Eli Zaretskii + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "In order to bring the user's attention to the minibuffer when an +item such as 'Edit -> Search' is activated from the menu, I was just +thinking that we could draw a big rectangle around the minibuffer, +blinking (or zooming in-and-out) until some input is typed in." + "How about dancing elephants?" + "They don't fit in my office." + "Well once the elephants are done, your office will be much... +bigger." + -- Stefan Monnier, Miles Bader and Kai Grossjohann + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +I remember these versions as yard-rocks (is that between inch-pebbles +and mile-stones?). + -- Kai Grossjohann + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "I think it depends on video drivers. I cannot reproduce it on my +home PC, but I can at work." + "Can you try to find a workaround at work? (I guess you don't need +a homearound at home. ;-)" + -- Jason Rumney and RMS + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +By the way, I also really really hate this unibyte/multibyte problem. +Sometimes I think I should have opposed to the introduction of such a +concept more strongly. + + imagine there's no unibyte + it's easy if you try + no bytes below us + above us only chars + imagine all the people living in multibyte + + -- Kenichi Handa + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +I try to uphold the ideals that I was taught to value as an American, +but every year I get less and less help from the United States. + -- RMS + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, then it +doesn't make sense to follow it." + "Nevertheless, until now, we always did." + "So.... should we not fix old bugs?" + "Why fix an old bug if you can write three new ones in the same +time?" + -- Miles Bader, Eli Zaretskii and David Kastrup + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + [...] As is well known, people who speak American English tend to +be more resource-conscious and try to avoid wasting precious bits +transferring those redundant "u"s. + Think of the number of occurrences of "color" and "behavior" in the +Emacs tarball, multiply that by the number of times it'll be +downloaded, stored on hard disks, archived, ...that's a substantial +saving. + -- Stefan Monnier + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Re: Parent of a derived mode's keymap. + + "I can't decide whether the title of this thread is more fitting for +a blues song or a pulp fiction booklet. It certainly projects drama." + "Hey, it says derived, not deprived." + "Actually, for some keymaps 'depraved' would fit better." + "I knew it! You're one of them vi lovers! There is nothing wrong +with Emacs using escape, meta, alt, control, and shift!" + -- David Kastrup and Lute Kamstra + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?" + "The only user-defined constant is ignorance. (With programmers, +this is a variable concept ;-)" + -- Juanma Barranquero and Thien-Thi Nguyen + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "Uh, 'archaic' and 'alive' is not a contradiction." + "Yes it is. 'Archaic' does not mean 'old' or 'early'. It means +'obsolete'." + "'He arche' in Greek means 'the beginning'. John 1 starts off with +'En arche en ho Logos': in the beginning, there was the word. Now of +course we all know that Emacs was there before Word, but this might +have escaped John's notice." + -- David Kastrup and RMS + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear +also for people not familiar with `woman'." + "Most hackers, I take? + For a moment there I thought you had a patch that you could put on +a woman, and it would make her come right to the topic at point +without attempting any course of action that requires an advance +course in divination. + There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." + -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup