... [ .... ] * modern_operations.el. A small point about this file (at <http://xahlee.org/emacs/modern_operations.el>): you don't really need the function `kill-line-backwards', since M-0 C-k will do this for you. However, that key binding is a bit clumsy. You could use it like this: (defun kill-line-backwards () "Doc string ...." (interactive) (kill-line 0)) Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

'Morning, Xah! On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 05:50:38PM -0700, Xah Lee wrote: On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, Alan Mackenzie <a...@colin2.muc.de> wrote: It is necessary to have _some_ buffer when starting Emacs. Not really. If you look at most apps, ..., I do support your right to promote them. A small tip: using swear words doesn't help you get your message across. It really doesn't. Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

On Sep 19, 1:36 pm, Alan Mackenzie <a...@colin2.muc.de> wrote: It is necessary to have _some_ buffer when starting Emacs. Not really. If you look at most apps, they provide either untitle or empty page, and has user pref to set whether to do that or just have nothing. Even so, you don't need *scratch*. You can just have “untitled”. I don't know where you get your figure of 99%% from. It is a ballpark estimate. Sad to say, ...

On Sep 19, 9:39 am, Alan Mackenzie <a...@colin2.muc.de> wrote: XahLee<x...@xahlee.org> wrote: Hi Eli moron, U wrote: If you want people to listen to your ideas seriously, you will wish to make a point of expressing them accurately. Please understand, that the level of precision and time spend in writing needed depends on the context. You would be a fool, to spend one year to compose a newsgroup post. And, ...

.... (3) User can close a scratch buffer and emacs will ask the user if she wants to save it. Draft Implementation The above suggestion is experimentally implemented in my Ergonomic Keyboard Shortcut Layout For Emacs. Just as a suggestion, this seems silly. Creating buffers has nothing to do with keyboard layouts. Why not separate out the functionality? [ .... ] Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

... a basic grasp of Emacs Lisp. You seem to expect that somebody else should do the work of implementing your ideas - that's just not the way things work. Implement it now - it should take more than an hour or two to modify C-x b - then we can try it out to see how good it actually is. Fuck you. Xah, don't try to fuck - you're not very good at it. Write some Elisp instead. Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Morning, Lennart! On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: defmacro is worse than my neighbour's cat. Miaow!!! Help! When I think I everything is fine and I calm down they bite. I have a defmacro where I define a function and I want to build the doc string for this function in a certain way. This works fine - until I byte compile it. Can someone ...

...) (setq mumamo-multi-major-mode ',turn-on-fun) (setq ,turn-on-fun t) (mumamo-add-multi-keymap ',turn-on-fun ,turn-on-map) (setq mumamo-current-chunk-family (copy-tree ',chunks2)) (mumamo-turn-on-actions old-major-mode) (run-hooks ',turn-on-hook))) (defalias ',turn-on-fun-alias ',turn-on-fun) ))) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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