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| author | Chong Yidong | 2009-05-12 04:16:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Chong Yidong | 2009-05-12 04:16:56 +0000 |
| commit | 890800b148c85d935935b8cc6cf124d2888e95fa (patch) | |
| tree | 583cd000b56ed937f1d61fd61f98016a18d0dc85 | |
| parent | 932fd020b338ea7f9a9960d4687b855e3c67c476 (diff) | |
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Remove mention of obsolete president.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/misc.texi | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/misc.texi b/doc/emacs/misc.texi index 465d8433fb3..93d29bf1c50 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi | |||
| @@ -2713,16 +2713,14 @@ typing @kbd{C-g}. The dissociation output remains in the | |||
| 2713 | @samp{*Dissociation*} buffer for you to copy elsewhere if you wish. | 2713 | @samp{*Dissociation*} buffer for you to copy elsewhere if you wish. |
| 2714 | 2714 | ||
| 2715 | @cindex presidentagon | 2715 | @cindex presidentagon |
| 2716 | Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in the | 2716 | Dissociated Press operates by jumping at random from one point in |
| 2717 | buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather than | 2717 | the buffer to another. In order to produce plausible output rather |
| 2718 | gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the end of | 2718 | than gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the |
| 2719 | one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the next. | 2719 | end of one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the |
| 2720 | That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to jump | 2720 | next. That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to |
| 2721 | to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon' | 2721 | jump to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in |
| 2722 | and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'.@footnote{This | 2722 | `pentagon' and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'. Long |
| 2723 | dissociword actually appeared during the Vietnam War, when it was very | 2723 | sample texts produce the best results. |
| 2724 | appropriate. Bush has made it appropriate again.} Long sample texts | ||
| 2725 | produce the best results. | ||
| 2726 | 2724 | ||
| 2727 | @cindex againformation | 2725 | @cindex againformation |
| 2728 | A positive argument to @kbd{M-x dissociated-press} tells it to operate | 2726 | A positive argument to @kbd{M-x dissociated-press} tells it to operate |