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: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 01:38:14 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zji0kvfd.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87ha4d64r2.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87bnuho13m.fsf@debian.uxu> <874n09nz3c.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401406834 13457 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2014 23:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:40:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 01:40:28 2014 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 1Wq9vw-0005as-6K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq9vv-0007d3-No for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 19:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fum7ryqwOTfkzWHj4we6ultBxJA= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205686 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:97956 Archived-At: Allan Streib writes: > Teletypes and other brands of paper-based "terminals" > were commonplace then. You didn't need (nor was it > practical) for the editor to display the contents of > the file, when it was already printed on the paper in > front of you. Oh, man, what a disappointment! I thought it was like blind chess or something! When I had (more severe) eye problems a couple of years back, I learned that you don't have to see, write, and type everything, you can do a lot by just closing your eyes and visualize things, and then, when the situation improves, just let your hands go, it's all there. This insight was helpful - however, it required a very high degree of focus which most people around couldn't understand (which was understandable, looking back) and this led to many unpleasant situations. Speaking of blind chess, I read somewhere that in the Soviet Union, the most brilliant (and fanatical) chess-brains decided to outdo the rest of the chess community by having tournaments playing several blind games in parallel - and that the government eventually had to put an end to it, as it was dangerous to maintain such an super-human mental effort, in a competitive setting, and for such an amount of time, at that. Unbelievable! Can you imagine what happened after that? Like chess players sneaking around the streets of Alma-Ata and Tbilisi, banging on steel doors with little windows, passing passwords just to get into illegal tournaments...! "Hey Andrei, open the good damn door, the KGB is all over the place!" -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573