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Re: Email Editors
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 6 Oct 1998 06:33:53 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote:
> If there's some feature you can't find in Emacs, you can always program
> it yourself. Emacs has a built in programming language to do everything
> your heart can desire.
Emacs is really just a lisp interpreter masquerading as an editor. :-)
When I used to use unix with only a 24x80 ascii terminal, emacs was
irreplaceable. With the advent of windowed interfaces, it doesn't have
quite as big an advantage. Emacs is still an amazing piece of work. What
other editor will solve the Towers of Hanoi, animating the disks using ascii
drawings?
Ron
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| (...) My favorite Emacs widget is getris. That's right - play Tetris inside an Emacs window. I think that Jamie Zawinski wrote a Mandelbrot graphics generator for Emacs when colored text came along. But I disagree about Emacs not having as great an (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It is my opinion that nothing can possibly compare to Emacs in powerfulness. True, Emacs has a very steep learning curve, especially for novice users. But when you've properly learnt to use Emacs, you're never gonna switch to anything else. If (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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