SaintDanBert |
12-26-2009 11:09 AM |
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Originally Posted by MTK358
(Post 3805209)
I agree, because I tried GNU Emacs and it just made my hands and brain hurt, and why does it need to be a whole "OS" when the one it's running on is great? Just another useless layer of abstraction.
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(grin) Remember, emacs hails from days without any sort of user GUI. Today, we can easily open multiple instances of an editor and spread things out on our desktop. Then, each process was expensive so the editor provided multiple windows, a shell, and all sorts of toys. As a developer, one could launch emacs and never leave it all day.
When X11 happened, emacs get "enhanced" to become Xemacs that took advantage of the new environment. (Please don't flame over my choice of "enhanced" vs. "forked" vs. something else.) The original emacs crowd made their own changes to that plain-emacs would notice if X11 was available. Anyway, here we are...
Cheers,
~~~ 0;-Dan
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