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-- Humor (sometimes unintended) on the Emacs developer's list --
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+-- The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this file, --
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- "Is it legal for a `struct interval' to have a total_length field of
+ "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."
Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
"Sorry for the long message. I wanted to make the problem clear
-also for people not familiar with `woman'."
+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
"It's the object of ridicule until the end of _tape_. The jury is
still out about that end of time thing."
-- Kim F. Storm, Miles Bader, RMS and David Kastrup
+
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+
+ "Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such
+constants with anything like the universality of e and pi."
+ "42"
+ -- Alan Mackenzie and David Hansen
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[...] So please do not delete anything."
+ "Done."
+ -- RMS and David Kastrup
+
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+
+ "I guess that can work in some circumstances, but it bypasses the
+printer drivers. Couldn't that lead to problems for the printer
+drivers?"
+ "Current research is that software does not suffer feelings of
+depression or loneliness when it is left out of the picture, so I
+wouldn't worry about it too much."
+ -- Lennart Borgman and Jason Rumney
+
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+
+ "... a non-CS-educated guy like me ..."
+
+ "Kind of late, but thanks for letting us know. I've just revoked your
+ write access to the repository for the obvious safety reasons,"
+ -- Bastien Guerry and Stefan Monnier