Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR

[Phillip Lord]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > is a discussion which begins with emacs and then progresses to
>> > open source software in general.
>> 
>> Sorry, no headphones to listen to the talk here.
>> Does it talk about Free Software as well?  Stefan
>
> You might be interested in this comment (the only one so far, it
> seems), from a veteran Electrical Engineer in Santa Clara, CA:
>
>   ...
>   At the age of eighteen, my fingers learned to build emacs keyboard
>   macros and I think I can use them in my sleep.  I still use GNUemacs
>   (and Aquamacs) every day.
>
>   Sometimes I wish that all software types would just Stop Doing Stuff.
>
> Alas, one person's shiny new "modernization" is another person's annoying
> Clippy-the-not-so-helpful-helper.

I remember a friend of mine complaining about this. A new release of
Emacs, now half the keybindings will have changed. Never having seen a
new release of Emacs, I stuck with the old version for quite a while.

That was Emacs 18, which was the first Emacs I'd used.

Phil