From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs for over aged hippies?! Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:15:31 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471260033 18936 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2016 11:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:20:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 13:20:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bZFwT-0004iA-1p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:20:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZFwQ-0001lo-5B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:20:26 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:n758x5UyW1xXZuyHjKoG3ZEIQgk= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218733 rec.bicycles.tech:983259 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111138 Archived-At: I was in a discussion on rec.bicycles.tech on the properties of the combination spanner (combination wrench) but as it happened the discussion drifted away across the Pacific to Easter Island, Russian history, and Word Star, perhaps the most successful of the early word processes. It was a monolithic program in assembly language and ran on the Z-80 processor, on the CP/M operating system. It was written by a guy named " John Robbins Barnaby", in four months. 137,000 lines of assembler code. To this I wrote: There is an Emacs mode (built in, actually): wordstar-mode Command: Major mode with WordStar-like key bindings. Is that the same? Sounds like it. For the real deal tho one would get a Z-80 CP/M emulator to run... or a time machine. And then I got: Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be an over aged hippie to use that :-) ??? -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 66 Blogomatic articles -