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From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Colors and other fun
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:06:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070627220608.GE28917@kris.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08d52a5efa996c205c60302e84f5cbcc@coraid.com>

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>my first reaction to russ' note was that vim hasn't so much provided
>an editor, but an editor development platform for people who don't
>want to start from scratch.

You're thinking of Emacs. Vim, internally and externally, is a 
monolithic mess (I'm no Emacs appologist, by the way). It's got 
scripting languages and knobs and bells and whistles and chimes 
and thorns cyanide. But it's not a platform. It's an editor that 
you can try to mangle to behave in ways it normally wouldn't. 
Emacs, though, is an OS, which has some editor functionality. 
It's a platform on which to build an editor. It's also large, 
complex, and beyond my ability to wield.

-- 
Kris Maglione

Any line, however short, is still too long.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27 18:59 Russ Cox
2007-06-27 19:13 ` Tim Wiess
2007-06-27 21:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-06-27 15:41   ` john
2007-06-27 21:56     ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-27 16:18       ` john
2007-06-27 22:06       ` Kris Maglione [this message]
2007-06-28  8:52       ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-06-28 13:20         ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-06-28 19:02           ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-06-28 19:09             ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-06-28 15:50         ` Jack Johnson
2007-06-29  3:25           ` john
2007-06-29 13:09           ` Jack Johnson
2007-06-27 21:48 ` [9fans] " Markus Sonderegger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-27  9:37 pavlovetsky
2007-06-27 10:08 ` Lucio De Re
2007-06-27 15:07   ` Rob Pike
2007-06-27 18:26     ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 18:35       ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-27 19:09         ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 19:24           ` David Leimbach
2007-06-27 19:39             ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-06-27 20:35               ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 21:20                 ` Jack Johnson
2007-06-29  2:16                   ` Bakul Shah
2007-06-27 19:51             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-27 21:49               ` Jack Johnson
2007-07-02  8:55           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-06-28  4:42     ` Anant Narayanan
2007-06-28  4:50       ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-28 17:30     ` Dave Eckhardt
2007-06-27 15:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-06-27 16:23   ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-06-27 17:55     ` Steve Simon
2007-06-27 18:03       ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-27 18:22         ` Rob Pike
2007-06-28 15:26         ` Steve Simon
2007-06-27 18:03       ` Kris Maglione

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