Corporate creep in Linux? (mini-rantette)

On 2009-10-06, Count Floyd <CountFloyd RemoveThis @MonsterChillerHorrorTheater.com> wrote:
>
> I always wondered how the coyote PAID for all that Acme stuff? Line of
> credit? Rich relatives?

The Acme Red Light district, I believe. This is why Coyote is so
bitter.

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Mike Spencer <mds DeleteThis @bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:

> Glyn Millington <wistanswick DeleteThis @linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
>> Hmmmmm - now how do you acheive that - the posters-name> quoting? Are you
>> using supercite?

> No. Here's more than you probably want to know:
> I'm using gnus, an nntp news reader that runs inside emacs.

Indeed - your headers show as much - that's why I asked I use that
combo myself.

> Since it's running inside a versatile text editor (but see contrary
> opinion infra), I can to anything with a post that the text editor can
> do. So I quickly compose a keyboard macro that prepends the desired
> bit of "username> " text to each quoted line, then temporarily set that
> string as the line-prefix for paragraph "filling" (reformatting) and
> "fill" the paragraph to eliminate overly long lines. The prefix is
> auto-prepended to each line of the reformatted paragraph. Then I cancel
> the fill prefix. C-x ( username> C-n C-a C-x ) C-p M-f C-f C-x . M-q
> C-a C-x . all with the keyboard. Beautiful, isn't it?

Sounds like jolly hard work to me!

Have you tried trivial-cite (tc.el)? It lays out the different layers
of a conversation very tidily. Doesn't do that name insertion stuff
though, for which I'm grateful. There's a specimen here

http://www.millingtons.eclipse.co.uk/glyn/gnus.html


but please forgive the colours! That was in XEmacs but it works just as
well for Gnu Emacs.

> Twenty years on, I just couldn't do without emacs.

Nor I!

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Responding to Aaron W. Hsu:

> On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:28:55 -0400, Mike Jones <Not.DeleteThis@arizona.bay> wrote:
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>> Just so you know that as a direct result of adapting your brain around
>> using Emacs you have evolved into something else.
>
> Speaking of evolving one's brain. I went from Vi -> Emacs -> Vim -> Ed
> -> Emacs <-> Vi --> NEdit -> Acme. Now, just what has to happen to one's
> brain to end up in Acme Land?
>
> Aaron W. Hsu





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On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:51:32 +0200, Sidney Lambe wrote in a.o.l.s. AND two
other newsgroups:

> On alt.os.linux.slackware, Mike Jones wrote in ONLY a.o.l.s.:
>
>> Been reading a bit on people complaining about KDE's "features" and
>> other similar "What the hell is it doing NOW?" stuff,....
>>
> Right on.
>
> Sid

Why do you keep adding newsgroups to our discussions, Sid? Do you
think you need three grindstones for your one axe?
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In comp.os.linux.setup Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe.DeleteThis@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> On alt.os.linux.slackware, Mike Jones <Not.DeleteThis@Arizona.Bay> wrote:

> KDE, for example, is twice the size of a fully-graphical (GUI)
> Linux OS, .....

Care to back this statement up? Where does the ratio "twice" come from?

> Sid

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Glyn Millington <wistanswick DeleteThis @linuxmail.org> wrote:

> Mike Spencer <mds DeleteThis @bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
>
>> Glyn Millington <wistanswick DeleteThis @linuxmail.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmmmm - now how do you acheive that - the posters-name> quoting? Are you
>>> using supercite?
>
>> No. Here's more than you probably want to know:
>> I'm using gnus, an nntp news reader that runs inside emacs.
>
> Indeed - your headers show as much - that's why I asked I use that
> combo myself.

Ah, well, I'm just a little slow. If you has asked if I were using
"supercite.el" I would have clued in.

> Have you tried trivial-cite (tc.el)?
> [....]
> http://www.millingtons.eclipse.co.uk/glyn/gnus.html

No. Thanks. Copy saved for study. I quote manually. News quoting is,
for me, near but as yet below the threshold of annoyance that triggers
going to the trouble of learning how to automate it.

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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:56:03 +0000, Mike Spencer wrote:

>
> That would be the same Acme that makes anvils, personal rockets, giant
> rubber bands and road runner snares? I can imagine what their text
> editor might be like.

When I read your post I pictured a gigantic No. 2 pencil...