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

[Magnus Lindkvist]

And that's bad becuase...?

magnus

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From: "Didrik Madheden" <didrik at kth.se>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:57 PM
To: "Stacken club general discussion" <stacken at stacken.kth.se>
Cc: <douglasp at microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: I'm very curious to see what you will make of Emacs

> 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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>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> But with Windows. I don't miss much of all that. (Except perhaps ctrl-u 
>> and
>> ctrl-d…)
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Ulf Landgren
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