On 01Jul2015 22:49, Bill Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 01Jul2015 10:19, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 06/30/2015 08:02 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote:
>>> > > > Personally I tend to use a nontexty character for this
>>kind of > > > placeholder, such as ^G. Less risk of excountering
>>that in the input > > > text, and therefore less risk of
>>accidentally mangling it.
>>> > Eliminate risk.
>>> Replace all strings of e's with another string of e's, one e longer.
>>> Replace the intra-paragraph newlines with one e each.
>>> Sort.
>>> Undo the previous replacements.
>>> If, for some reason, one does not like e, use a vertical stroke.
>>> You misquote.
>>I did not make the comment you attribute to me.
>
>Indeed, but it looks like Michael Hennebry misquoted. As I made that
>comment:-)
Would it help if I said I *wished* I'd made the comment?
Probably. It would add to the goodwill in the group. Or I would hope it would,
anyway.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au>
If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every
single one, has had the exact same common denominator, and that was
accepting what was true over what I wished were true. - Julia Sweeney