At 19:24 07/02/2005 -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >David M. Cook wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:12:17AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: >> >> >>>Shame? There's no shame in resisting the anti-UNIX attitude of emacs. :) >> >> >> Why do you think that? Emacs plays very well with unix. > >Even as an emacs user, I have to agree with Stuart on this one. > >Emacs was forged in a time of incompatibility. DEC, IBM, Apollo, Sun, >Data General, etc. Every OS had its own way of doing basic things. >Emacs eventually evolved into an oasis on each system that worked >exactly the same as any other system (mostly). Thus, it needed the >ability to do things like handle directories, read news, read mail, etc. > >Both the emacs philosophy (everything is inside the editor) and the >mechanisms (everything works the *emacs* way in spite of the underlying >OS) are at odds with the Unix way (simple discrete tools and no imposed >mechanism). >
I recently finished reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll (Thank you, Todd Walton!) and Emacs was the hole that allowed all the breakins documented in the book. Not that I'm picking on Emacs. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
