From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:19:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wtuw5d5ho.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eenc1du2.fsf@blind.guru
Mario Lang wrote:
> Emacs works with graphical toolkits on all major platforms, but also
> offers a almost-feature-complete text interface.
Emacs is a manifestation of the ITS user interfaces. They all relied on
text because that's all that was available back then. They also used
control characters, Altmode/Escape/Meta, and prefix arguments.
> I am seeing Emacs as a platform to write "apps" in Emacs Lisp.
In this sense, Emacs is a Lisp machine. Not surprisingly, those came
from the same place as ITS: the MIT AI Lab.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-08 15:35 Emacs is very special regarding UIs Mario Lang
2020-09-08 16:43 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-10 15:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2020-09-10 18:24 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-10 18:50 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-09-11 4:18 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-10 19:36 ` andres.ramirez
2020-09-10 19:49 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-10 19:54 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-09-10 21:01 ` andrés ramírez
2020-09-15 8:24 ` Mario Lang
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