Talk: Emacs

In article <34mssm$bi...@gagme.wwa.com> art...@sci.kun.nl (Arthur van
Leeuwen) writes:
   In <34ln8i$8o...@gagme.wwa.com> ble...@media.mit.edu (Brian Patrick
   Lee) writes:
   >In article <34hqo7$e6...@gagme.wwa.com> Out of Order <psa...@hmc.edu>
   >writes:
   > Quoth dre...@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Kevin D. Sandal):
   > > Andrew Hendler <ahe...@netaxs.com> wrote:

   > > >What is emacs? I here so much about it yet I have know idea
   what
...
   > > EMACS is a text editor that is quite powerful and, to some,
   much > > friendlier than vi. There are versions available on Mac,
   PC > (DOS/OS2), > UNIX, and Next (I think). You should be able to
   find >...

   >Emacs is the most popular editor in the world of Unix.  It's the
   >most >flexible, powerful, and extensible programming environment,
   bar none.  >You can edit files, send mail, compile programs, play
   games, etc., >without leaving the editor. -- adapted from
   ``Learning GNU Emacs'' by >Debra Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt,
   O'Reilly & Assoc., Inc.

   Oh? The most popular editor in the world of Unix? Why don't I see
   anybody here using it?

I'm sure someone in the Netherlands is using Emacs.  Talk to your
Computer Science Department.  If you see it, you'll understand.

   >As far as ASCII art is concerned, it has a picture-mode that
   allows >you to draw in ASCII much more powerfully than Word,
   Wordperfect, etc.

   Hmm... sounds good.

   Doei, Arthur.

   -- Arthur van Leeuwen, art...@sci.kun.nl /\ / Oh, how I wished
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How can you know about the Geek Code, but not Emacs?!  I don't get it.

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Brian Patrick Lee <ble...@media-lab.mit.edu> <le...@tcm.org>
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