From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:21:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1uec857.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d1uenn4h.fsf@newartisans.com>
On 2015-12-10, at 20:02, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> My only point is that Lisp features really do make Emacs what it is. To
>> point out what Emacs is necessarily means pointing out some of those
>> features (IMO).
>
> I agree. The things that make Emacs great:
>
> 1. Highly consistent syntax.
> 2. Self-documenting.
> 3. Integrated debugger.
> 4. Ability to re-evaluate functions in a running environment.
> (i.e., everything that made Lisp Machines great)
> 5. Natural syntax for scoping resources (`with-temp-buffer ...')
> 6. Large and well documented API
> 7. Stable and mature concepts evolved over decades
> 8. Huge, HUGE community of cargo-cultable examples, for those just learning
9. Lots and lots of functions to peform common (and even not-so-common)
tasks in an automated way. (transpose-.*, I'm looking at you!)
10. Lots of well-thought-of functions, resulting from gathering over
three decades of experience: if you _want_ Emacs to be able to do
something useful (however small or big), it probably already can. (See
beginning-of-buffer with a prefix arg, for instance.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 16:46 Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) John Yates
2015-12-10 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:56 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-10 19:02 ` Casting as wide a net as possible John Wiegley
2015-12-10 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:19 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 20:50 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 7:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-10 19:54 ` covici
2015-12-10 21:21 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-12-14 13:05 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2015-12-14 16:21 ` raman
2015-12-14 18:21 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-11 7:08 ` Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) Richard Stallman
2015-12-11 16:14 ` Casting as wide a net as possible raman
2015-12-14 14:41 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-14 15:01 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-14 17:20 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-14 17:59 ` Random832
2015-12-14 18:19 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-15 18:12 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-15 18:54 ` Random832
2015-12-15 19:03 ` Random832
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[not found] ` <<fa45f69a-b8df-46f8-8fda-4735dc34e4dc@default>
[not found] ` <<m2d1uenn4h.fsf@newartisans.com>
[not found] ` <<83a8pi9l6o.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-10 19:15 ` Drew Adams
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