[ale] [Slightly OT] Emacs question.

[Michael B. Trausch]

Bj?rn Gustafsson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Hrm.  I knew that it predated Linux (as did most of the GNU utilities),
but I didn't realize that it predated it by that much...

>
> 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.
> 

That's the biggest thing I like -- it is simply the most butt-kicking
programmer's editor I have ever used.  I have not ventured into some of
the other things that people have made Emacs do, including web browsing,
e-mail, and instant messaging, but only because I already had systems in
place for those tasks when I started using Emacs.  If I would have
started using Emacs in 1996 when I started Linux, I very well might use
Emacs for everything -- it would likely save me a ton of memory and let
me use this system without wishing I had money to upgrade the RAM in it...

	-- Mike

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