[ale] Why I run emacs

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 11:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> this why I use vi.....

I just don't use any of the "toys" in Emacs.  I use an *awful* lot of
the functionality, though.

Honestly, I would be *truly* happy if there were an editor like Emacs
that was always in input mode (command mode in vi is evil, especially on
low bandwidth, high latency links where you can't keep track of what
fscking mode you're in), but was extended using Python instead of LISP.
Seriously.

It seems that a variant of Emacs built around Python would be ideal for
today's world, actually.  Nobody sane learns LISP.  Nearly everyone
either knows or can write in Python if they know another language and
with not terribly much effort---I'm not saying that Python is simple,
but it is relatively easy because of the quick turn around between
saving and running.  I'm by no means a Python wizard, but I can get
stuff done in it if I have to.  LISP?  Pppft.  I guess I'm just not a
real man... Anything more complex than a single-command one-liner is
over my head in LISP.  I have (mostly) written my .emacs by hand,
myself, from what I have learned, but I don't write functions in it...

	--- Mike