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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?


From: Steven Degutis
Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 14:30:15 -0500

Quite beautiful.

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> wrote:
> () Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
> () Sun, 5 May 2013 00:43:37 -0500
>
>    Yes, any clone is a fork, but only the Privileged Few can understand
>    emacs' source code enough to do anything decent with it.
>
> what privilege -- to have the source
> (and time and obstinance to grok in full)!
> still, decency forbids me, of course,
> to drape my pushful whims as pull.
>
> mayhaps there be a muddling middle,
> where awkward (mis-)steps could warn, not err.
> never opaque'd be my fuddling fiddle;
> a tweak in alpha, to thwart despair.
>
> i cannot count the ghosts that surround me;
> they whisper lines of code and commentary.
> through pregnant plant of secrets quite profoundly,
> fear, was heavy, now hope, but momentary.
>
> what privilege -- to have the source
> (and nerve and indolance to shirk the view)!
> still, cowardace spurs me on, of course,
> to close my mind and mock the few.
>
> thi
>



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