From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9410 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Acronym expansion caveats Date: 15 Jan 1997 02:10:20 +0100 Sender: larsi@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199701141737.MAA00755@gemini.ryerson.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149441 18299 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:30:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA21525 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:30:14 -0800 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@ppp12.larris.ifi.uio.no [129.240.68.112]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:14:26 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id CAA18340; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:10:21 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: elf@ee.ryerson.ca's message of Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:37:13 -0500 Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.81/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ I've not been following the AE thread but I had some thoughts on the > matter last night (excuse me if this has already been discussed). > > (One assumption I have made is that there is a function that expands > all the acronyms in a buffer). I don't think anybody has suggested that -- the ae things are meant for interactive usage only, since it takes a while to get a response from the web server for each acronym. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen