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Article #9713Re: 5.23 doc error
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 00:59
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 00:59
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>>>>> On 18 Mar 91 18:59:16 GMT, jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com (Jamie >>>>> Zawinski) said: Jamie> In message <9103181721.AA19643@wendy-fate.UU.NET> Kyle Jones wrote: > Those who change the default key bindings can change the > documentation as well. Jamie> I think that's very unreasonable. [Adopting a motherly tone of voice here.] Now Kyle, you behave yourself and use those nice \\[] things that Jamie put so much effort into making. Jamie, that was very nice of you to see the non-hardwired way of doing things. > My fear is hardly irrational. The keymap lookups caused by rampant > use of \\[...] really slow down program startup. Jamie> What wait? It only happens when you ask for help! On every system I Jamie> use, it takes far longer to redisplay the help buffer than it does to Jamie> cons up the docstring! Bad boy Kyle! And a tiny speed up now anyway wouldn't compensate for loss of coding goodness, etc. And one day nice Jamie won't be around to help out. Go to your room! -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,bd8f13259f7e2e17 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-19 05:20:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac,att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: Re: 5.23 doc error Message-ID: <DANJ1.91Mar18185932@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Date: 19 Mar 91 00:59:50 GMT References: <DANJ1.91Mar17140905@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <DANJ1.91Mar17140905@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <9103180317.AA17614@rodan.UU.NET> <9103180317.AA17614@rodan.UU.NET> <9103180413.AA06221@thalidomide> <9103180413.AA06221@thalidomide> <9103181721.AA19643@wendy-fate.UU.NET> <9 Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com's message of 18 Mar 91 18:59:16 GMT