* Apology
@ 1994-02-11 2:22 Scott
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From: Scott @ 1994-02-11 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'd like to apologize for bringing up the topic of emacs here. My
intention was to try to better understand Plan 9 as a practical
system. The spirit of the original request was:
Emacs has all of this wonderful functionality... Plan 9 *must*, but
I don't see how. Could somebody explain it to me?
I'm a person who likes Plan 9 a *lot* in principle, but who is having
a lot of trouble putting that into practice. (I'm also having a lot
of trouble convincing anybody else at my institution to care, but
that's another issue.) My productivity as a hacker depends strongly
on things that emacs gives me. I (and presumably others who share my
"problem") need to see that moving to Plan 9 won't cut my productivity
in half.
The issue seemed to me to have a lot more to do with Plan 9 than emacs
-- I certainly had no intention to try to "convert" anybody to emacs.
The discussion has clarified the issue a lot; the thing wrong with
emacs (and *right* with Plan 9) is that emacs provides its
functionality in a nasty monolithic way instead of in a clean, modular
way. Plan 9 gives you functionality similar to that of emacs, but
without forcing an editor to be anything but a good editor.
In any case, the thread has obviously offended several of you, so I'll
drop it... and go back to trying to get Plan 9 running on my notebook.
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Scott Deerwester | The Hong Kong University of
Internet: scott@cs.ust.hk | Science and Technology
Phone: (852) 358-6985 | Department of Computer Science
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* Apology...
@ 1995-11-15 13:25 Thomas
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From: Thomas @ 1995-11-15 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
I apologize for the stupid questions... the faq showed up in the next
mail message - isn't that the way it always is.
-Tom
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