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Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:31:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Sorry, I cannot always afford to read everything, especially if the
>>> messages are very long.
>>
>> Amen.
>>
>> Drew, you should really think about trying to be less verbose,
>> especially on minor issues like this.
>
> I'd have used "bellicose". One of the problems is that people just
> skip those long discussions, and it does not help if the replies keep
> repeating points all over. This annoys all people involved including
> Drew, because he fails to understand why people end up neither
> countering nor supporting his points.
>
> In an ideal world, one makes one's point one time, people form an
> opinion once everything has been said once, come to a decision and act
> on it.
I told Drew a long time ago that I would most likely skip his lengthy
messages -- not due to lack of interest or because I considered them
unimportant -- but simply because I don't have time and energy to do so.
Writing "a lot" is not a guarantee that your will "get your message across".
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- RE: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, (continued)
- RE: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Drew Adams, 2006/09/25
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Johan Bockgård, 2006/09/26
- RE: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Drew Adams, 2006/09/26
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/09/26
- RE: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Drew Adams, 2006/09/26
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/09/26
- RE: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Drew Adams, 2006/09/27
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/09/27
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Miles Bader, 2006/09/27
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, David Kastrup, 2006/09/27
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/26
Re: address@hidden: bug in read-kbd-macro, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/25