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Article #1382Re: AHEM! (was Re: Emacs)
From: br... Brian R. Holt
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 18:47
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 18:47
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In article <1990Feb14.2...@chinet.chi.il.us>, ign...@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat) writes: > I might suggest that one reason Emacs is *so* large is that it currently > has everything but the kitchen sink. I mean, REALLY--if you want to run > cellular automata, or write LISP, shouldn't you use an appropriate tool? I suspect that many GnuEmacs fanatics are frustrated LispM hackers who see GnuEmacs as a primitite LispM environment under Unix. Overheard at a party years back at House Gorodish was the instructive quote: "I could *live* in GnuEmacs". Editor, programming environment, email, news, window system, everything. And if you ever need a shell, you could always run one of those in your emacs window, but why bother? If GnuEmacs doesn't do it yet, just hack up a little lisp code, and you are all set. GnuEmacs is not an editor, it is an environment that is completely configurable and extensible. What more could you want? =brian P.S. Many of these comments apply to other full-featured emacs but none so well as GnuEmacs. br...@ima.isc.com US 617-661-7474 x206 near the last bend in the Charles River
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!spdcc!mirror!necntc!ima!haddock!padouk.ima.isc.com!brian From: br...@padouk.ima.isc.com (Brian R. Holt) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: AHEM! (was Re: Emacs) Keywords: emacs, editors, beluga software Message-ID: <15954@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 15 Feb 90 18:47:43 GMT References: <1990Feb14.230018.14983@chinet.chi.il.us> <21743@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <4504@rtech.rtech.com> <51073@bbn.COM> <6194@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <4534@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <2878@paperbo <1990Feb13.031811.3909@world.std.com> Sender: ne...@haddock.ima.isc.com Reply-To: br...@ima.isc.com Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation - Cambridge, MA Lines: 26 Posted: Thu Feb 15 19:47:43 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit