"Christopher Jahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> And it came to pass that Garth Wallace wrote:
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> > "Christopher Jahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> I'm suspicious of Gnus, as it started out as a Mac
> >> application.
> >
> > Eh? I thought GNUS was an emacs app...
>
> whatever "emacs" is. You begin to fathom my confusion about it.
Oh! You got emacs mixed up with Macs! That explains it.
Emacs (short for "Editing MACroS") is a text editor primarily
used on UNIX (although it is also available for Windows IIRC),
produced by the GNU project. The program itself is actually a
LISP interpreter with some basic text editing functionality, the
rest of the functionality is implemented as LISP programs that
run inside the main program. It can be customized through LISP,
to the extent of entire programs being built on top, much like
how new components can be built on top of Mozilla with XUL
and JavaScript. There are a lot of LISP packages available for
use with emacs, including email programs (RMAIL), newsreaders
(GNUS), the Eliza "psychoanalyst" (M-x doctor), a generator of
random quotes from Zippy the Pinhead (M-x yow), etc.
