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Re: The name gnus-cloud.el
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: The name gnus-cloud.el |
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Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:57:58 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> How about gnus-noncloud.el?
>> That would make the joke clearer so we could all get it.
>
> Wouldn't a name like that imply that somewhere there is such a thing as
> a cloud?
>
> The current name is an explicit joke on the concept that a "cloud"
> exists. It's just a server somewhere, and perhaps having a joke like
> that as a name can be didactic. "Hey! There's a cloud in Emacs!
> *reads manual* Oh, it's just stores something on a server... Is that
> what all clouds are about?"
>
> I mean, we can dream.
I could have sworn that there was something called "Cloudy Gnus" at some
point, did I dream that? We could call it gnus-cloudy.el. Let people
interpret that as they will.
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