From: Martin Neubauer <maneubauer@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:24:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nos8pd$vmi$1@news.mixmin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se>
On 15/08/2016 13:15, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
> ???
>
At least the man page is pretty concise: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/emacs
--
Angenommen, ein Ring ist ein umfaßtes Loch, und ein Rohr ist ein
ummanteltes Loch. Was wäre dann, wenn man das Rohr zu einem Torus
zusammenbiegt, das gesamte Gebilde?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-15 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-15 11:15 Emacs for over aged hippies?! Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 11:24 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2016-08-15 12:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 16:34 ` Bob Proulx
2016-08-15 17:16 ` sms
2016-08-15 17:48 ` sms
2016-08-15 18:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 18:37 ` Mike Causer
2016-08-15 19:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 19:09 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2016-08-16 12:49 ` Filipe Silva
2016-10-11 3:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 18:59 ` Tosspot
2016-08-15 19:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-16 14:40 ` Gene
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