Re: amazing software rot

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: http://www.cs..edu/~b
 > Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:17:02 -0800
 >
 > I know Jonathan is just going to tell me to stop using JOVE, but...

I still use JOVE.  In fact, I'm using it to write this email.

 > I just copied a few lines of code with M-W and then pasted them a few lines
 > down with C-Y, but the new location isn't as deep in nesting, so I then said
 > M-8 M-X shift-region-left.

Surprisingly, I have never used this function.  I almost always use
replace-in-region and query-replace using regexes.

 > And it changed the text!  I can't actually swear
 > to whether it was the paste or the shift because I wasn't paying that close
 > attention.  But it turned "menustack" to "menuscack" and elsewhere turned
 > "menu" to "menenu" and also "length-1" to "lengt1".

That is just hilarious.

I tried it just now and it works fine.  I'm on 64-bit Debian.

 > I know MacOS 10.10 broke a lot of programs, but mostly they just wouldn't run
 > at all.  This feels like some kind of timing error.  If I had used command-C
 > to copy and command-V to paste, I'd figure it was a problem about the MacOS
 > clipboard vs. the X11 clipboard, which has a long history of flakiness, but
 > that can't affect C-Y yank.
 > And no, it's not just the display that got
 > messed up; I searched for "menusc" and it found it.