From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 23:33:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeWA3i02-0XCjd7NOq_dsqBa5_BWD3R07dkmqsvN_oGf3XDEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130505043007.GB5537@hysteria.proulx.com>
I've wanted to write a text editor, but I don't know how to do syntax
highlighting.
Also, your response reminds me so much of the Workflow xkcd comic.
http://xkcd.com/1172/
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Steven Degutis wrote:
>> I'm so tired of how Emacs so desperately clings onto the 80s and 90s.
>
> I am so tired of how people take current working tools and modify them
> to be something completely different that breaks it for everyone who
> was using it. GNOME 3 is a good recent example but there are others
> before it.
>
> If you want to take emacs, or any other tool, and fork it off and go
> into a different direction that is great! I fully support you doing
> that. Emacs has been forked many times already. That is one of the
> awesome things about free(dom) software. It gives you the ability to
> modify and customize it. If you think emacs is backwards then write
> it your way reversed. Call it "scame" because it wouldn't be emacs.
>
> But don't break the existing emacs users to build that new tool. Just
> build that new tool. Don't make your gain a loss for others.
>
> "I love you. You are perfect. Now change." I *hate* that!
>
>> So many of its defaults are idiotic, so many legacy features it tries
>> to support are just terrible and useless.
>
> Then fork it and do your own thing! But please don't break it for me.
>
>> I often wish there was a modern emacs clone that dropped all these
>> legacy features.
>
> Do it! The source is there for you. Or start clean with an empty
> directory. There are no limits.
>
> Bob
>
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2013-05-05 3:06 Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 3:58 ` Le Wang
2013-05-05 4:06 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:30 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-05 4:33 ` Steven Degutis [this message]
2013-05-05 5:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 5:43 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 6:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-05 17:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-05-05 19:30 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 6:59 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.25179.1367737210.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-05 14:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 19:31 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 19:52 ` Mark Skilbeck
2013-05-05 4:32 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-08 12:51 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-05 5:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 5:39 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:04 ` XeCycle
2013-05-05 4:13 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-05 4:17 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:36 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-05 5:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 4:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 4:39 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:41 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 8:29 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-05 5:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 5:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-09 11:50 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-05-05 6:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-05 8:21 ` eniotna
2013-05-06 10:20 ` Bastien
[not found] <mailman.25145.1367723226.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-05 3:43 ` Chad Brown
2013-05-07 18:17 ` Cecil Westerhof
2013-05-08 2:30 ` Hugh Lawson
2013-05-08 9:35 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-05-08 15:53 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-08 20:51 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-05-08 21:08 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-22 11:01 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-09 8:26 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.25343.1368046244.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-08 23:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-09 8:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-09 8:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 13:39 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 15:26 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 15:35 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 18:50 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 18:58 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 19:01 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 19:09 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 19:04 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 19:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 19:27 ` Jai Dayal
[not found] ` <mailman.25426.1368126295.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-09 19:09 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-09 21:08 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 4:01 ` PJ Weisberg
2013-05-11 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-11 14:45 ` Jai Dayal
[not found] ` <mailman.25436.1368133731.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-09 21:58 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-09 16:00 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-05-09 16:02 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 16:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 16:25 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 16:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 16:46 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 17:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 17:11 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 17:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 17:50 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-09 16:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 16:19 ` Hongxu Chen
2013-05-09 16:27 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 18:13 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-05-11 18:14 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 19:12 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.25563.1368296076.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-11 20:14 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-11 21:11 ` Jai Dayal
[not found] ` <mailman.25571.1368306670.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-11 21:40 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-11 22:32 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 23:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-12 8:30 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-12 8:44 ` Hongxu Chen
[not found] ` <mailman.25594.1368348301.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-12 19:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-12 20:00 ` Dan Espen
2013-05-12 20:53 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-12 21:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.25612.1368392031.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-12 22:40 ` Dan Espen
2013-05-13 1:23 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-12 20:52 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-13 5:58 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.25577.1368311553.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-11 22:41 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-12 0:04 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-12 13:46 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.25583.1368317085.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-12 0:09 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-12 2:27 ` Dan Espen
2013-05-12 6:32 ` Jai Dayal
[not found] ` <mailman.25590.1368340339.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-12 14:07 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-09 16:17 ` Hongxu Chen
[not found] ` <mailman.25386.1368106748.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-09 13:43 ` notbob
2013-05-09 15:57 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 16:53 ` Jay Belanger
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2013-05-08 16:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-08 19:49 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-09 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-09 2:48 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-09 7:25 ` Jonathan Groll
2013-05-09 9:08 ` Tamas Papp
2013-05-05 10:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-05-06 3:31 ` Jason White
2013-05-06 9:52 ` ken
2013-05-06 9:56 ` Peter Dyballa
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2013-05-08 10:22 ` Andrea Venturoli
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2013-05-06 13:13 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-06 15:29 ` Joost Kremers
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