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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
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Steven Degutis |
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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? |
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Sat, 4 May 2013 23:33:05 -0500 |
I've wanted to write a text editor, but I don't know how to do syntax
highlighting.
Also, your response reminds me so much of the Workflow xkcd comic.
http://xkcd.com/1172/
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Steven Degutis wrote:
>> I'm so tired of how Emacs so desperately clings onto the 80s and 90s.
>
> I am so tired of how people take current working tools and modify them
> to be something completely different that breaks it for everyone who
> was using it. GNOME 3 is a good recent example but there are others
> before it.
>
> If you want to take emacs, or any other tool, and fork it off and go
> into a different direction that is great! I fully support you doing
> that. Emacs has been forked many times already. That is one of the
> awesome things about free(dom) software. It gives you the ability to
> modify and customize it. If you think emacs is backwards then write
> it your way reversed. Call it "scame" because it wouldn't be emacs.
>
> But don't break the existing emacs users to build that new tool. Just
> build that new tool. Don't make your gain a loss for others.
>
> "I love you. You are perfect. Now change." I *hate* that!
>
>> So many of its defaults are idiotic, so many legacy features it tries
>> to support are just terrible and useless.
>
> Then fork it and do your own thing! But please don't break it for me.
>
>> I often wish there was a modern emacs clone that dropped all these
>> legacy features.
>
> Do it! The source is there for you. Or start clean with an empty
> directory. There are no limits.
>
> Bob
>
- Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Steven Degutis, 2013/05/04
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Le Wang, 2013/05/04
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Steven Degutis, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Steven Degutis, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Steven Degutis, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/05
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- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Steven Degutis, 2013/05/05
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Mark Skilbeck, 2013/05/05
Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Jai Dayal, 2013/05/05