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Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: display-buffer-alist simplifications
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:45:24 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:08:11 +0900
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> 
>>  > > Certainty is not "high" or nor even "quite high".  Certainty is an
>>  > > absolute, no differences from expectation allowed.
>>  > 
>>  > Sorry for not choosing the right word, English is not my first
>>  > language.  I guess I meant high probability.
>> 
>> I'm sorry, this is not about your English, which is more than
>> sufficient to the discussion.  I did not intend to focus on your word
>> choice, rather on the fact that the outcome is uncertain.
>
> The level of uncertainty should be low, that's all.  E.g., like the
> level of uncertainty that the sun will rise tomorrow in the East and
> not elsewhere.

That's likely a different metric in parts of Finland than in Israel.

-- 
David Kastrup




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