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Re: `set-variable' should use :set
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: `set-variable' should use :set |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:02:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> > ("Obsolete" is not a verb BTW (e.g. "obsoleted"),
>>
>> It is, according at least to
>>
>> - Free Merriam-Webster: http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/obsoleted
>> - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
>> http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=obsolete
>
> Oh, fun.
>
> The first of those URLs claims that as a verb it is (only) transitive ("You
> obsoleted the bike"). The second of those claims that as a verb it is (only)
> intransitive ("You obsoleted, but the bike obsoleted first").
The second is from 1913. The first is current. Since Emacs 19.13 has
been obsolete for quite a while, I'd go with the latter, namely the
first.
> Customize obsoletes `set-variable' the same way stalking and killing
> your own deer, cleaning it, transporting it, and stewing it obsoletes
> just grabbing a bowl of venison stew at the hunting lodge. Customize
> is an adventure; `set-variable' is sans drama.
Until you picked up the slack.
--
David Kastrup
- `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/21
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Miles Bader, 2010/10/21
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Miles Bader, 2010/10/21
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/21
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/21
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/22
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, David Kastrup, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/10/22
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/23
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Glenn Morris, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Jambunathan K, 2010/10/23
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/24
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/22
- RE: `set-variable' should use :set, Drew Adams, 2010/10/22
- Re: `set-variable' should use :set, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/22