From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87y58pplcp.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375202728 26952 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 16:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:45:28 +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 18:45:25 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 1V4D31-00060L-Ha for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:45:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4D31-00046c-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:45:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.64.202 with SMTP id f10mr66718745qai.2.1375202699314; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:44:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.30.226 with SMTP id v2mr157699igh.17.1375202699100; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fx3no181383qab.0!news-out.google.com!ce7ni126qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no181378qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.34.89; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.34.89 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:44:59 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200293 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:92560 Archived-At: On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:52:53 PM UTC+5:30, Aur=E9lien DESBRI=C8RES wrot= e: > GNU Emacs is an Extensible Editor. >=20 > Extensible (word) have it's importance in the way that the limit with > GNU Emacs is you. Some years back Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote in response to a noob asking why he = should learn emacs: (which I promptly saved in my quotes file :-) ) =20 real programmers use their brain. real programmers program their brain. often, real programmers' brain-programming program is emacs.