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2 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index 5e93cf72807..4f5053aa960 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
+2006-11-10 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
+
+ * DEVEL.HUMOR: Two more entries.
+
2006-11-10 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
* orgcard.tex (section{Archiving}): Document C-TAB.
(section{TODO Items and Checkboxes}): Checkbox keys moved to this
section, added documentation for the key `C-c #'.
-2006-11-05 Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se> (tiny change)
+2006-11-05 Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se> (tiny change)
* emacs.py (eargs): Provide eldoc message for builtin types.
- Make sure eargs always outputs sentinel, to avoid emacs freeze.
+ Make sure eargs always outputs sentinel, to avoid Emacs freeze.
2006-10-22 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
index 94d86407dd4..9e7e4a9910b 100644
--- a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
+++ b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
@@ -136,3 +136,24 @@ without attempting any course of action that requires an advance
course in divination.
There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
-- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
+this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
+ "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do
+you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?"
+ "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
+ -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
+decrease readability. It's a tossup."
+ "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
+j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
+readable?
+ Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
+serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
+synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
+ -- RMS and David Kastrup