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In-Reply-To: <199708010349.NAA02681@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Aug 1, 97 01:19:54 pm"
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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Michael Smith writes:
> Brian Somers stands accused of saying:
>>> .....]
>>>> The first is just wrong, and the second is a mis-quote.  I originally
>>>> said:
>>>>
>>>>> More like:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> cc[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]]mm[.ss]]
>>
>> Arrrghhhhhh !  Your mailer is gobbling the "open square brace"
>> characters !  That is *NOT* what I posted.  There are two opening
>> brackets prior to the ``cc'' that something's eating.
>
> Greg is almost certainly using supercite inside emacs.  Bad boy!

No.  Real Hackers write their own Emacs macros.  And they don't always
work right.

>> I'm sure we can all agree that this means the above usage (with the
>> two wandering brackets included) is correct ?
>
> Yes.

Oh.

Think-again-ing you what
Grog