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Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken? |
Date: |
06 May 2003 17:16:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> writes:
> No, you've got it backwards. When you launch Emacs, you tell your
> Mac "I want to travel to Emacs-land" and implicitly accept its
> foreign customs. Emacs is practically an OS of its own -- it
> includes a Turing-complete programming language with which mail and
> news readers, and other applications, have been implemented, all
> inside the editor. In short, launching Emacs and complaining about
> the keyboard shortcuts is like launching Windows under Virtual PC
> and complaining that all the windows are funny-looking.
>
> If Emacs worked like a Mac program, it wouldn't be Emacs anymore...
Emacs dresses a lot more like the locals than XEmacs does (which looks
pretty much the same anywhere). Apart from that, the land of the
Emacsen is by now almost like Belgium: you can talk in various idioms
and get understood. There is the slightly augmented form of the
original French (as in freedom fries) with terms like "nonante" and
"(cua-mode 1)", but you can also expect to find people speaking Dutch,
viper-mode or even wordstar-mode or German.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, (continued)
- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/05/06
- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/05/06
- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/05/06
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- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, Barry Margolin, 2003/05/06
- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, Andrew Choi, 2003/05/06
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- Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken?, Ajanta, 2003/05/06