On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 01:56 PM, Benjamin Huot wrote: > Richard Stallman (RMS) wrote EMACS - a text editor that had programmable > Elisp (like BASIC but better) Macros.
No kidding?! > It is an interface to do everything with - newgroups, email, text > searching, diff, coding, or any UNIX command. Sounds like an obsession. > He was actually the first to start the GNU liscense- the basis for Linux' > s popularity. Is that right? > He got a genius grant from MIT to write free software. Isn't MIT that looney bin where that slime dog Noam Chomsky hides out? Down the street from Harvard near the Charles River, right? Don't fall in. > So while the eMac is a computer, EMACS is a piece of software. I'm glad you understand that. That's amazingly profound. > > I'm sure I got something wrong and I do mix the names up too. > It highlights HTML when and will start HTML page code for you. Well, the part about eMac being hardware (with an OS installed as well) and EMACS being software I am sure is correct. > I like it much better than any of the other editors available for Linux or > Windows except for GXedit which I > didn't see included in Mandrake's GNOME package. > > Ben > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, Ben, get a life, man... dennis the menace
