[ale] [Slightly OT] Emacs question.

[Björn Gustafsson]

Not only is Emacs available for other UN*Xes (and other OSes), it
actually predates Linux by a number of years.  I first used it on the
original sparc boxes and some other workstations about 20 years ago,
and it was already on version 18 at that time.

It's the original IDE: in fact, it almost integrates the whole
operating system.  :)  The advantage it offers is to provide a single
unified(-ish) interface to everything you do.  It's not just that you
can open multiple files in the same address space, you can open a
shell, a (lame) browser, help system, compiler, debugger, etc, etc.

On 10/18/06, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Actually it is on topic.  Personally I never load emacs anywhere (no
> matter how much developers beg) but it is certainly a Unix/Linux utility
> available in the world.
> FYI:  It is available for Unix (in fact one system I used to work on the
> vendor loaded emacs and taught me to use it for doing customizations of
> their code) and that was back in the early 90s.
>
> The main benefit most developers tell me about when they want it is
> "multiple windows" but since we can open multiple PuTTY or xterms this
> has never seemed a good selling point to me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael B. Trausch
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:26 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] [Slightly OT] Emacs question.
>
> Marvin, International Martian of Mystery wrote:
> > Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > <stuff>
> >
> > I just have to ask:
> >
> > Why is an emacs question off-topic?  While emacs isn't exclusive to
> > linux, it is one of the premier apps/editors included in most distros.
>
> > It would seem to me that questions about any app that runs on linux
> > would be relevant to a linux list.
> >
>
> I didn't think it was completely off-topic, but because it seems that
> majority of the people like (g)vi(m), if I recall correctly; and vi is
> truly a part of Unix-like systems (which Emacs isn't, even though the
> FSF wished it were), I figured it was slightly off-topic.  It was a
> highly Emacs-specific question, and I figured I would rather err on the
> side of safety as opposed to not.  :-)
>
>         -- Mike
>
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