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author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2009-05-12 04:16:56 +0000 |
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committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2009-05-12 04:16:56 +0000 |
commit | 890800b148c85d935935b8cc6cf124d2888e95fa (patch) | |
tree | 583cd000b56ed937f1d61fd61f98016a18d0dc85 | |
parent | 932fd020b338ea7f9a9960d4687b855e3c67c476 (diff) | |
download | emacs-890800b148c85d935935b8cc6cf124d2888e95fa.tar.gz |
Remove mention of obsolete president.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/misc.texi | 18 |
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 |