Ha thats awesome. Thanks for the insight! I missed the boat on that since I'm not a traditional CS major or old school linux junkie. Though this sounds like the lead dev at my work. He fires away all day in emacs on an ergonomic dvorak keyboard. I had to do something on his box a few times and had to single finger poke at each key. It also makes a beep with each keypress that he finally disabled. Yet its still exceptionally loud with it off. :-)
On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:23 PM, "T. D. Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 26, 11:01 pm, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Emacs is your favorite OS? > > It's an old joke that probably came from the vi community: "Emacs is a > great operating system. Too bad it doesn't have a decent text editor." > But there's some truth to it. Emacs was a pretty huge executable back > in the day- another old joke is that Emacs stands for "Eleven Megs and > constantly swapping," though that joke doesn't make much sense > anymore. > > But Emacs is also very programmable and really hardcore Emacs users > use it to do almost everything. It has a web browser, an email client, > an irc client, a newsreader, modes for interacting with various source > control systems, Tetris, a few chatbots, including Eliza and Zippy the > Pinhead (who you can make converse with each other if it's a really > slow day at the office,) etc. As Xavier Ho points out you can open a > system shell in an Emacs buffer. And Emacs is very programmable, if > you don't mind the idiosyncracies of Emacs Lisp. > > I wind up developing on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there was a time > when I used a couple of other operating systems pretty regularly. > Treating Emacs like an OS as much as I can helps to soften the blow of > moving from platform to platform, though I'm definitely not a really > hardcore Emacs user. Among other things, I'm not able to grow a > luxurious enough beard to qualify ;). > > I do think that Emacs is a decent text editor, but I sometimes suspect > that vi might be a better one. And I'm pretty sure vi is less likely > to give you an RSI than Emacs is. Emacs does have an answer to this > though- there is a mode for emacs (more than one actually, I think,) > that makes Emacs's text editing a lot like vi's. But it's a little > like switching to a programmer's Dvorak keyboard layout- something I > sometimes think I ought to do, but which I am too set in my ways to > actually do. > > Best > T > > -- > view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > change your subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
