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Re: Defun Self Documentation
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Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: Defun Self Documentation |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Nov 2020 19:03:58 +0100 |
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 at 6:36 PM
> From: "Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor"
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
>
> >> It's rude indeed, but see his "apology" mail on Sat, 29 Aug 2020
> >> 14:52:36 +0200. He has a personality disorder, which makes him behave
> >> weirdly from time to time. IMO it's better to ignore this when it
> >> happens.
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not prepared to ignore people who publicly smear the names of
> > others with profanities. Those people should be prepared to have their
> > names publicly smeared as well.
> >
>
> That's correct only if you assume that everyone behaves in a rational way.
> There are people with psychological disabilities, who sometimes do not
> behave rationally. One particularly impressive disability is for example
> Tourette's syndrome.[1] The best thing you can do is to not take what they
> do and say seriously/literally, IOW, to take what they do and say with
> many grains of salt. Of course all this is more difficult to perceive
> with people who behave irrationally only at times, and is also more
> difficult to perceive on a mailing list.
That depends on how administrators run the project. Not all are so
understanding.
Have you never worked in a serious job before! Administrators are entitled to
reject anybody who cannot function well in a society. Still, I would not argue
that Emanuel Berg can offend anybody when writing on his own web pages.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome
>
>
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, (continued)
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, tomas, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, tomas, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Christopher Dimech, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation,
Christopher Dimech <=
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different), Jean Louis, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different), Emanuel Berg, 2020/11/08
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/06
- Re: Defun Self Documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/06