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Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR |
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Thu, 28 May 2015 22:07:08 +0100 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > is a discussion which begins with emacs and then progresses to
>> > open source software in general.
>>
>> Sorry, no headphones to listen to the talk here.
>> Does it talk about Free Software as well? Stefan
>
> You might be interested in this comment (the only one so far, it
> seems), from a veteran Electrical Engineer in Santa Clara, CA:
>
> ...
> At the age of eighteen, my fingers learned to build emacs keyboard
> macros and I think I can use them in my sleep. I still use GNUemacs
> (and Aquamacs) every day.
>
> Sometimes I wish that all software types would just Stop Doing Stuff.
>
> Alas, one person's shiny new "modernization" is another person's annoying
> Clippy-the-not-so-helpful-helper.
I remember a friend of mine complaining about this. A new release of
Emacs, now half the keybindings will have changed. Never having seen a
new release of Emacs, I stuck with the old version for quite a while.
That was Emacs 18, which was the first Emacs I'd used.
Phil
Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR, Phillip Lord, 2015/05/28
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Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR, ken, 2015/05/29