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The Virtues of Emacs (was Re: Email Editors)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 03:09:53 GMT
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In article <3619B9D0.8D260BF4@san.rr.com>, Ron Kittle
<rkittle1@san.rr.com> wrote:
> Emacs is really just a lisp interpreter masquerading as an editor. :-)
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> 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?
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 advantage
compared to "modern" GUI editors. Any time I have to take
my hand off the keyboard to touch the mouse, I have to
slow down.
But that's just me - I've used Emacs since about 1987.
-Tim
--
Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/
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| (...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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