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

[Cthun]

On 01/03/2011 1:18 AM, rusi wrote:
> On Mar 1, 9:32 am, Jim Janney<jjan...@shell.xmission.com>  wrote:
> > Cthun<cthun_...@qmail.net.au>  writes:
> > > First of all, the purpose of a version control system is to manage
> > > text that's compilable by build tools
> >
> > That's a bit like saying that the purpose of Usenet is pointless
> > bickering; while that is one of the uses to which it's commonly put,
> > it's hardly the only one

What does Janney's classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to 
do with Lisp, rusi? Saying version control is for novels is like saying 
the purpose of Usenet is pointless bickering, rusi; saying it's for 
source code is like saying the purpose of Usenet is for discussion. 
Janney's mistake is rather ironic, though, considering his own 
considerable recent contributions to the misuse of Usenet for pointless 
bickering, rusi.

> Historically, sccs tracked source and could not manage much else, in
> particular binary files were a problem.

What does that have to do with Lisp, rusi?

> This was 40 years ago.

What does that have to do with Lisp, rusi?

> With rcs this stopped being true and it has been so for some 30 odd
> years.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, rusi?

> git is the most radical shift away from version control systems as
> managing (source code) versions to generally managing content.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, rusi? I see that of a random sampling of github projects, all 
appear to be software source code development, rusi. Suffering from 
reading comprehension problems, rusi?

>  From http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111314792424707
>
> In many ways you can just see git as a filesystem - it's content-
> addressable, and it has a notion of versioning, but I really really
> designed it coming at the problem from the viewpoint of a _filesystem_
> person (hey, kernels is what I do), and I actually have absolutely
> _zero_
> interest in creating a traditional SCM system.  -- Linus Torvalds

What does any of that have to do with Lisp, rusi?