From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What makes Plan 9 unique?
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:01:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011106110235.30CE5199BF@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
emacs doesn't just replace half a dozen applications, it potentially
replaces all of them; you're limited only by the amount of emacs lisp
you can write before you get carpal tunnel syndrome. i was somewhat
surprised that the gnu people actually bothered implementing a new
OS (the hurd); i assumed they'd just port emacs to the bare hardware,
or perhaps mach, to minimise porting effort.
i suppose if i said that sam or acme does all editing better than emacs,
emacs fans wouldn't take me seriously. it's still true, though.
you can even read mail or netnews with acme, and with no lisp involved.
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2001-11-06 11:01 geoff [this message]
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2001-11-07 6:34 Russ Cox
2001-11-07 1:02 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-06 17:08 anothy
2001-11-06 16:45 Russ Cox
2001-11-06 17:53 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:28 ` William Josephson
2001-11-07 2:46 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 22:14 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-06 10:22 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-10-29 21:28 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 14:59 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:22 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-10-29 20:54 David Gordon Hogan
2001-10-29 18:54 presotto
2001-10-29 13:07 bwc
2001-10-29 1:56 okamoto
2001-10-26 17:09 forsyth
2001-10-26 16:58 presotto
2001-10-29 10:16 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-10-29 20:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-30 16:50 ` Dan Cross
2001-10-26 15:01 Russ Cox
2001-10-26 16:48 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-29 9:04 ` pac
2001-10-25 11:56 Russ Cox
2001-10-26 9:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-25 9:00 Matt Senecal
2001-10-25 9:36 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-26 9:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-26 14:03 ` Matt Senecal
2001-10-26 15:36 ` Borja Marcos
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