From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: emcAsc
Date: 04 Dec 1999 13:28:28 -0800
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[If you have any doubts about me being biased, check the X-Newsreader
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Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com> writes:

> Lars Eighner wrote:
> > Any editor that maps backspace to the help function
> > (emacs) is simply out of place on a desktop with a 104+ keyboard.

Just where did you see this?  AFAIK, this shouldn't occur on anything
other than a dumb terminal.
 
> Anyone who judges an editor by the second keystroke that they ever
> issued (because their first letter was typed wrong!) in it simply don't
> have any patience.  Had they been not so lazy, they would have the
> chance to learn such nice functionalities as "indent the whole region",
> and "comment out a whole region", "incremental search", "show revision
> history", and "evaluate the preceding sexp".

And "M-x dissociated-press" :))

> > And a glorified line editor (like vim) is the sort of thing DOS
> > left in the dust with the late and not-very-lamented edline.
> 
> And DOS replaced EDLIN with what?  EDIT.EXE! which saves all files with
> the .TXT extension.  A clear sign that it's not intended for writing
> programs!
> 
> > Emacs is an incredible resource hog because it was designed
> > by grad students with access to mainframes. 

In 1976.  I'd hazard a guess that your desktop machine has quite a lot
more resources than the average university's mainframe in 1976.

And personally, I can't think of anything I'd rather waste eight megs
of memory on than Emacs. :)

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge AT hmc DOT edu