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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2009-05-12 04:16:56 +0000
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2009-05-12 04:16:56 +0000
commit890800b148c85d935935b8cc6cf124d2888e95fa (patch)
tree583cd000b56ed937f1d61fd61f98016a18d0dc85
parent932fd020b338ea7f9a9960d4687b855e3c67c476 (diff)
downloademacs-890800b148c85d935935b8cc6cf124d2888e95fa.tar.gz
Remove mention of obsolete president.
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/misc.texi18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/misc.texi b/doc/emacs/misc.texi
index 465d8433fb3..93d29bf1c50 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi
@@ -2713,16 +2713,14 @@ typing @kbd{C-g}. The dissociation output remains in the
@samp{*Dissociation*} buffer for you to copy elsewhere if you wish.
@cindex presidentagon
- Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in the
-buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather than
-gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the end of
-one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the next.
-That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to jump
-to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon'
-and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'.@footnote{This
-dissociword actually appeared during the Vietnam War, when it was very
-appropriate. Bush has made it appropriate again.} Long sample texts
-produce the best results.
+ Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in
+the buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather
+than gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the
+end of one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the
+next. That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to
+jump to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in
+`pentagon' and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'. Long
+sample texts produce the best results.
@cindex againformation
A positive argument to @kbd{M-x dissociated-press} tells it to operate