From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] loop over headlines in active region Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:26:31 +0200 Message-ID: <877h5i3tbc.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87obzpl3ec.fsf@gnu.org> <1314246334-5053-1-git-send-email-dmaus@ictsoc.de> <87d3ftiz11.fsf@gmail.com> <87zkitabb4.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <87bouw404u.fsf@gmail.com> <87obyu4awt.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39203) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1yMz-0004XB-J6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:31:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1yMy-0000qn-ES for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:31:37 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:62731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1yMy-0000qj-6T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:31:36 -0400 Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so2860091fxg.0 for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:31:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87obyu4awt.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> (David Maus's message of "Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:06:26 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Maus Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:06:26 +0200 David Maus wrote: > At Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:34:41 +0200, > =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n N=C4=9Bmec wrote: >> So your "what stop me to implement a macro" argument is bogus, isn't it? >> I can't really comment on whether using a macro or not is the right >> thing here, but it seems to me you shouldn't base the decision on an >> invalid argument (IOW, from the fact that you even felt the need to >> explain why you didn't use a macro to begin with, it would appear to be >> the case that you would have preferred the macro way). > > "One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand > about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the > very very obvious, as in /It's a nice day/, or /You're very tall/, or > /Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all > right?/ At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange > behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he > thought, their mouths probably seize up. > > After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this > theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their > lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he > abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided > he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained > desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't > know about." > > Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy In your "enlightened" style, that would be =E2=80=9C=E6=9B=B0=EF=BC=9A=E2=80=98=E5=9B=9B=E5=A2=83=E4=B9=8B=E5=85=A7=E4= =B8=8D=E6=B2=BB=E5=89=87=E5=A6=82=E4=B9=8B=E4=BD=95=EF=BC=9F=E2=80=99=E7=8E= =8B=E9=A1=A7=E5=B7=A6=E5=8F=B3=E8=80=8C=E8=A8=80=E4=BB=96=E3=80=82=E2=80=9D= =E3=80=8A=E5=AD=9F=E5=AD=90=C2=B7=E6=A2=81=E6=83=A0=E7=8E=8B=E4=B8=8B=E3= =80=8B Still, I'd rather we stuck to the point and expressed ourselves in a way that doesn't imply the other side is either an idiot or a telepathist (although I'd argue that in the currrent context, my quotation is much clearer than yours). --=20 =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n