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From: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@bell.net>
To: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading]
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:16:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP1477A269661122B50916CCBBE30@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10158.1340464881@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:21:21 -0400")

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> == Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

Hi Nick:

> Even in emacs however, that's an extra step (iirc, unbox is also
> finicky about where the cursor should be in order for it to work: I
> get it wrong a substantial percentage of the time and have to try
> again, which adds to the aggravation. It's also not bound to a key by
> default, which adds a little bit of aggravation too.)

With completion, it is not too bad. :-)

> But seriously, the guiding principle should be:
>
> "What can I do to make the life of whoever decides to read this and
> help me with it, as easy as possible?"
>
> or from the other end
>
> "What can I do to make my reply as useful as possible?"
>
> THe content remains paramount of course, but these little things help.

Agreed. Also, everyone should learn how to ask smart questions.[1]

Regards,
Charles

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 

-- 
"Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night
hacking (and/or conversations with God)."
(By Matt Welsh)

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-22 15:27 take the name of org-class event from heading Enda
2012-06-22 15:44 ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-22 15:48   ` Enda
2012-06-22 16:03     ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-22 16:06       ` Enda
2012-06-22 16:18         ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-22 22:21       ` OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading] Nick Dokos
2012-06-22 22:45         ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-06-22 23:39           ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-23  0:10             ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-06-23  7:41               ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-06-23  8:00                 ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-06-23  8:35                   ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-06-23 15:21                   ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-23 23:16                     ` Charles Philip Chan [this message]
2012-06-24 12:34                     ` Sebastien Vauban

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