From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:01:21 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87txjchqq6.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87y58pplcp.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375207585 20375 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 18:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:06:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 20:06:29 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 1V4EJU-00007C-UW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:06:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4EJU-0005sC-GH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:06:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:m0D91DnNtzS7Zi1z7eK/DWkqdYo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200297 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:92564 Archived-At: aurelien@replicant.io (Aurélien DESBRIÈRES) writes: > GNU Emacs is an Extensible Editor. > > Extensible (word) have it's importance in the way that the limit > with GNU Emacs is you. Yes. In that sense, Emacs resembles the Unix/Linux shells, where you can customize, and extend, in the .rc and .profile files. I think this should be the rule, rather than the exception, to just about any piece of software. But it is not - so it is good to have Emacs and zsh! > GNU Emacs is not difficult to learn and by the way it will teach you > Computer Sciences. The practical side to it, at least. The most important side. > Try GNU Emacs out of X you will discover and OS in the OS Yes, and that was the Kon-Tiki point I made a couple of messages back. But on a Unix/Linux system, it doesn't really matter from where you run Emacs. X is a windows system, from where you can run Emacs either in its GUI incarnation (using a WM on top of X), or in an X terminal (like xterm or urxvt, with 'emacs -nw'), *or* you could have Emacs in a Linux VT (the tty's). That Emacs is an OS within the OS is a great point! -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573