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From: blee@media.mit.edu (Brian Patrick Lee)
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Subject: Talk: Emacs
Date: 9 Sep 1994 22:07:15 -0500
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In article <34mssm$bi8@gagme.wwa.com> arthurvl@sci.kun.nl (Arthur van
Leeuwen) writes:
   In <34ln8i$8ov@gagme.wwa.com> blee@media.mit.edu (Brian Patrick
   Lee) writes:
   >In article <34hqo7$e6n@gagme.wwa.com> Out of Order <psamuels@hmc.edu>
   >writes:
   > Quoth dreamer@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Kevin D. Sandal):
   > > Andrew Hendler <ahendler@netaxs.com> wrote:

   > > >What is emacs? I here so much about it yet I have know idea
   what
...
   > > EMACS is a text editor that is quite powerful and, to some,
   much > > friendlier than vi. There are versions available on Mac,
   PC > (DOS/OS2), > UNIX, and Next (I think). You should be able to
   find >...

   >Emacs is the most popular editor in the world of Unix.  It's the
   >most >flexible, powerful, and extensible programming environment,
   bar none.  >You can edit files, send mail, compile programs, play
   games, etc., >without leaving the editor. -- adapted from
   ``Learning GNU Emacs'' by >Debra Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt,
   O'Reilly & Assoc., Inc.

   Oh? The most popular editor in the world of Unix? Why don't I see
   anybody here using it?

I'm sure someone in the Netherlands is using Emacs.  Talk to your
Computer Science Department.  If you see it, you'll understand.

   >As far as ASCII art is concerned, it has a picture-mode that
   allows >you to draw in ASCII much more powerfully than Word,
   Wordperfect, etc.

   Hmm... sounds good.

   Doei, Arthur.

   -- Arthur van Leeuwen, arthurvl@sci.kun.nl /\ / Oh, how I wished
   that what I write was true. [Valensia] /--\ / GCS d@ H(+) s+;- g+
   p? !au a-- w v+ C++() USL P L+ 3 E--- N++ / \/__ K W M- !V -po+ Y+
   t+ !5 !j R G? tv+ b+ D B- e+ u++(*) h f !y+

How can you know about the Geek Code, but not Emacs?!  I don't get it.

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