Mark, On Monday, 2025-09-22 10:45:59 -0700, you wrote:
> ... > When we brought VM into git, we integrated several not merged > branches. This appears to have come from one of these. Not quite. In both, the current GitLab and the old Bazaar repositories the next to oldest changeset dates from 2004-05-02 21:30:26 +0000, is authored by Robert Widhopf <[email protected]> and has the log message "Ini- tial Import of VM 7.18". According to file "HISTORY.md" this was the next to last release from Kyle Jones. In this changeset files "vm-*.el" are still residing in the toplevel directory rather than in subdirectory "./lisp/", and checking out this changeset and doing $ grep tale vm-reply.el (defun vm-help-tale () (error "tale is an idiot, and so are you. :-)")) (if vm-tale-is-an-idiot (vm-help-tale)) $ more than twenty-one years later produces strangely familiar output :-) Sincerely, Rainer
