Hi Bob.

01-Mar-04 10:29:01, Bob Lawrence wrote to Jasen Betts


 BL>> I had a look at emacs this afternoon, and the rnthusiastic
 BL>> dickhead who wrote the manual says: "emacs is the greatest
 BL>> program ever written!"

 JB>> It's widely accepted that Richard Stallman has a big head.

 BL> And a very shaky grip on reality...

 JB>> You havens seen the built-ins. the web browser the games doctor
 JB>> tetris black-box dunnet     (text adventure) gomoku snake
 JB>> solitaire  (with stones in a cross shape) landmark   (dunno how
 JB>> to play this one) the email/newsgroup client the info reader the
 JB>> day planner the IDE features ....

 BL> I haven't seen them, but I got a good gioggle reading that they
 BL> existed... in a text editor!

 BL>> Do you believe you have to type TWO commands to exit?

 JB>> ?? ^x^c gets me out

 BL> Count them... one, two. ^c ^x

It's not radically more difficult to type than alt-f4 for example.

 BL> It could have been worse... he might have insisted on upper case.

I don't think so - there's no distinct ascii representation for shifted
control characters. :-)

 JB>> it's all written in LISP so you can change it if you _really_
 JB>> want to there may even be a patch out there to do just that.

 BL> And WORD is written in VB. What's that got to so with it?

Emacs is interpreted (the user interface atlast). the source is there.

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