On Nov 7, 2007 5:13 PM, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> emacs (comes with a free operating system) > > > > Me don't understand. > > > > The long-standing joke is that emacs is a great editor, but a mediocre > operating system. Most often pitted against its arch-rival > vi in religious wars, emacs is (in that context) somewhat "bloated" according > to its detractors. The fact that one can do email, > webbrowsing, and work in a command-line environment simultaneously (all of > that and much more without ever leaving emacs) is what > has given rise to this mythos.
That makes me want to try out the mighty and legendary Emacs, the poster child of the GNU project. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
