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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on May 13, 2003, 02:40:07 am

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: Kamikaze on May 13, 2003, 02:40:07 am

I've heard that some people (well maybe alot, I don't know) use emacs as their home and their life. :p So I was wondering if any of you linux enthusiasts (I know there're a few of you 'round) are familiar with that kind of emacs-usage (i.e. the never-comes-out-of-emacs type) and if you could tell me some useful/neat/common programs to use in emacs. (preferably easily obtained for debian)

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: Admiral LSD on May 13, 2003, 02:46:40 am

Emacs
Makes
All
Computers
Slow

:p

Seriously, I don't even install Emacs (Slackware gives it it's own disk set so it's easy enough to do) I prefer the editor built into Midnight Commander or vi (old habit, you know the ones that die hard?)

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: Kamikaze on May 13, 2003, 02:51:22 am

Well, I'm not particularly fond of emacs, but I've barely used it so I can't really say. I was mainly using vi but I'm trying emacs now.

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: CP5670 on May 13, 2003, 03:01:06 am

What is emacs anyway?

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: Kamikaze on May 13, 2003, 03:02:48 am

it's an editor program for linux, to put it in extreme ways I guess it's a souped up notepad :p Interesting thing is you can do pretty much everything in linux from emacs, you can view mail, browse the net, program, whatever.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: kode on May 13, 2003, 03:38:57 am

i usually install it but I never really use it. i prefer other editors.

oh, emacs is for freedos too :D

Title: any emacs freaks here?
Post by: Admiral LSD on May 13, 2003, 03:46:15 am

I would imagine Emacs has been ported to just about everything.

It was written by Richard Stallman and was the first program ever released under the GPL but I can't quite remember whether he wrote it as a part of his larger GNU project or as a showcase for the GPL...