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37 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:35:13 -0800 (PST)
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38 From: Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
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39 To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
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40 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
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48 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:34:38 +0400
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67 On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:24:51 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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68 > Quoth Jani Nikula on Dec 12 at 11:13 pm:
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69 > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:53:05 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
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70 > > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:50:04 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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71 > > > > +If set to nil (the default), new mail is processed by invoking
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72 > > > > +\"notmuch new\". Otherwise, this should be set to a string that
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73 > > > > +gives the name of an external script that processes new mail. If
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74 > > > > +set to the empty string, no command will be run.
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76 > > > I think this should be "an empty string". But I may be mistaking.
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78 > > Shameless copy paste from a native speaker, who am I to argue? :)
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81 > Either way is grammatically correct. Really, this is a philosophical
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82 > question. Can two empty strings have different identities? Or is
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83 > there only one empty string in the universe?
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86 > (eq "" (string)) => t
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87 > (eq "" (make-string 0 ?a)) => t
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88 > (eq "" (substring "a" 1)) => t
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90 > It would appear Elisp is squarely in the "there is one empty string"
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91 > camp, so "the empty string" would be more correct.
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93 Fine with me then :)
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