Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions

[Kim F. Storm]

Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> ...
>>> How about if the people who want to replace it set themselves up as a
>>> committee to choose the best proposals.  They can make another mailing
>>> list; then we won't discuss it further on this list.
>>
>> Any old pinhead fan can just copy the yow.lines file from their existing
>> emacs installation into emacs 22.  New users will _not_ miss it.
>
> Because they won't know about it; 

Exactly!

>                                   but they will miss out on a little
> bit of texture.  (Which, of course, is better than replacing it with
> something not very good.)

As the new quotations would be free, they are _per definition_ better!

Let's greate gnow.el (from yow.el) and gnow.lines (with a few silly
remarks to start with), and then gmove yow.el and yow.lines to
obsolete/.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk