From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id ad208517 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C5E88A271C; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:39:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FD5A2704; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:39:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B4D19A26DC; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:39:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B5FA93FC6 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:39:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id 6468B18C073; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:39:19 -0500 (EST) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20181117153919.6468B18C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:39:19 -0500 (EST) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] man-page style X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Lars Brinkhoff > Emacs is very much divorced from the Unix philosopy. However, it's > perfectly in synch with how things are done in ITS. Hmm. It is complicated, but... the vast majority of my keystrokes are typed into Epsilon (a wonderful, small, fast EMACS-type editor for Windows, etc which one can customize in C) - especially since I started, very early on (V6) to run my shell in an EMACS window, so I could edit commands, and thus I was pretty much always typing to EMACS. So, it makes sense to me to have it be powerful - albeit potentially a bit complex. I say 'potentially' because one could after all restrict oneself to the 4 basic motion commands, and 'delete character'; you don't have to learn what CRTL-ALT-SHIFT-Q does. > Stallman .. developing GNU Emacs (from Gosling's version) Err, I'm not sure how much influence Gosling's was. He had, after all, done the original EMACS on ITS; I got the impression he just set off on his own path to do GNU Emacs. (Why else would it be implemented in LISP? :-). Noel