On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:17:00 -0700, Xah Lee wrote:
About a month ago, i posted a message about modernization of emacs. I
enlisted several items that i think emacs should adapt.
And you are posting this to compl.lang.perl because.??
F'up set.
M4
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About a month ago, i posted a message about modernization of emacs. I
enlisted several items that i think emacs should adapt.
Today I added another section to the frequestly asked questions.
The new section is pasted below. The full article can be found at
Xah Lee:
I agree with what you say now and most of what you wrote a month back
-- I even learnt something useful from there -- longlines mode.
Emacs is important to me and (I guess) to many of the subscribers here.
But how does posting an emacs related question help on a python mailing list??
Rustom Mody wrote:
But how does posting an emacs related question help on a python mailing list??
One Word: Ego.
Don't reply.
/W
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Eh? Me? you?? Who???
Did I say something offensive? Sorry if I did... but I dont understand...
I must say that I found the earlier post useful to me as an old-time
emacs user who's not quite upto all the latest stuff. However it was
quite off topic for a python list.
The flame war that followed
Sorry, I don't understand why this is still on the python mailing list.
:wq
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Xah Lee wrote:
In Emacs's documentation, the term Meta key should be replaced with
the Alt key, to reflect current usage, since that is the keyboard 99%
of personal computer users know. The Meta key name is a major point
of confusion for getting people to learn Emacs.
This is utter
Rustom Mody wrote:
Eh? Me? you?? Who???
Did I say something offensive? Sorry if I did... but I dont understand...
No no, it's cool. Maybe I was a little too terse. Xah Lee likes to
crosspost his pseudo-philosophical tech-musings to several discussion
groups at regular intervalls. He's not
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Aquamacs already does what you want.
A: Aquamacs is a emacs
