From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Neubauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?! Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:24:29 +0200 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471260346 9459 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2016 11:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:24:29 -0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 13:25:42 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bZG1V-0002GO-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:25:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZG1S-0003Dz-Qa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:25:38 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.unit0.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="22ceca472b409739a23eaec79fe72c082499f425"; logging-data="32466"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" In-Reply-To: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> Original-Lines: 40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218734 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111139 Archived-At: 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?