I'm very curious to see what you will make of Emacs

[Didrik Madheden]

To me this seems very much like an attempt from Microsoft to charm
*NIX users, like saying: "Hey Windows is not so bad after all. You
should give it a serious try.".

/Didrik

On 27/12/2007, ulf.landgren at knowit.se <ulf.landgren at knowit.se> wrote:
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> http://www.douglasp.com/blog/2007/12/27/EmacsNet.aspx
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> Emacs.Net? Emacs was great, the best thing that happened when editing code
> on non-grahical simple ASCII-terminals. Other Editors where line oriented,
> but Emacs let you walk up and down the page with ctrl-u and ctrl-d, erase
> the rest of the line with ctrl-k etc. and you could record or write macros
> in lisp.
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> But with Windows. I don't miss much of all that. (Except perhaps ctrl-u and
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> So why Emacs? To get back the enthusiasts that also prefer runtime errors in
> dynamic languages instead of compile time errors in strong typed languages?
> ;-) (But it is true, Microsoft must not become the boring company that IBM
> once turned into, that's for sure.)
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> I have only been using Emacs, but there were a bunch here in Stockholm at
> "Stacken" that once wrote an Emacs compatible editor in Pascal they called
> Amis. However that was close to 30 years ago so I'm very curious to see what
> you will make of Emacs.
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>    Ulf Landgren
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