From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 19:24:32 +0200 Message-ID: <874nehqqzz.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <877gjevvdc.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367774554 7602 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2013 17:22:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:22:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 05 19:22:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZ2dn-0005p6-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 19:22:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZ2dm-0000K4-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 13:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZ2db-0000Ju-8J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 13:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZ2da-0006gn-CN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 13:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp207.alice.it ([82.57.200.103]:54443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZ2da-0006gj-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 13:22:14 -0400 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (95.236.25.217) by smtp207.alice.it (8.6.060.15) id 51239AD70BD225CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 5 May 2013 19:22:13 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZ2fo-0001kn-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 19:24:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Steven Degutis's message of "Sun, 5 May 2013 00:43:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.103 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90518 Archived-At: () Steven Degutis () 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