On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 18:33 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jh> Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > Anyway, screen is not the same thing _at all_. Editing a single file > can be done with any editor, true, but a true multi-buffer editor can do > so much more: you can see many buffers at the same time, you can cut > and paste between them, you can insert one into the other, you can > compare them, you can ... > > Emacs let you deal with mail, news, edit lots of code at the same time, > plus it had a file manager, could run your compiles, and a bunch of > other stuff... all with a unified and flexible interface. > > Emacs was really the first "desktop environment and IDE" for a time > before there were even desktops or IDEs.
"Unified environments" weren't that unusual. DEC had ALL-In-One, for example, though it was an end-user environment, not for geeks. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
