No. 232 - indent-new-comment-line misbehaviour

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 10:08 schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
> Andreas Röhler writes:
> 
>  > It looks clever and it is to the extent, you still know
>  > what's happening. But why all this bugs over the years
>  > then?
> 
> It's a doubly recursive acronym: BUGS Unify GNU Systems.
>                                  =    =     =   =
> More seriously, Emacs is buggy because it's a large collection of
> hacks, and it is deliberately set up to make quick hacks work pretty
> well rather than help you create robust applications. 


Let me describe situation with a common-life's example:

it's a known phenomenon: the most pretty girls are not
the most wanted for marriage.

With Emacs now we have definitely the most pretty; from
which one may conclude: Emacs hackers might not be the
most wisely in computing. As this includes me, please
no-one should feel offended by this remark. :)

To take a symbol already introduced: Probably we _have_
affair with a kind of Greta Garbo.

But then I say: Look, Greta, you are the most beautiful
in the world, even people who hate you, love you. But
it's not to deny: you are a couple of years in this
world now. Why not behave mannerly as a grand dame? 
Why not say "Hello" when you meet a person?
Why not use a handkerchief? 

Or: Why not make the basement of this marvellous
universe of code a little bit more reliable?

Grüße

Andreas Röhler

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