I'm sorry you though it was patronizing. I was just excited that someone might be on my level. I really would like to help the community and I thought this was a question I could answer. In the future I will assume that everybody else know a lot more than me. I have been using Linux for several years now so I'm not as stupid as you think I am.
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/30/2002 2:04:36 PM, Dennis Eberl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 > Landscapes of the Mind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
