> Maybe people say so because they expected something else. "Humor is such a subjective thing!" (B5). My guess is that the quip came from an emacs user who was perfectly content with it.
> Anyway, if you have a decent installation of emacs Is there a popular distribution of Linux that doesn't have emacs either in the base or in its repositories? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tomasz Rola [rto...@ceti.com.pl] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 11:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: emacs (was: Re: Has anyone) On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:51:00PM +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > I was just using emacs as ordinary text editor > > For me, an ordinary text editor is one that includes a good macro > facility, and I write new macros at the drop of a hat. If and when I > learn emacs, learning LISP will be part and parcel of that. > > "Emacs is a great operating system that desperately needs a text editor" Maybe people say so because they expected something else. Anyway, if you have a decent installation of emacs (i.e. wholesome, whereas some systems divide whole into some parts, like binaries plus ELisp files compiled for speed, ELisp source code, manuals)... but if you have it all, then just do "C-h i" and you will be presented, among other things, with: * Emacs: (emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs FAQ: (efaq). Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs. * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. * Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr). A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp programming. This will be info, a builtin hypertext documentation system. Other source of hints and information are: https://wikemacs.org/wiki/Main_Page https://www.emacswiki.org/ And to up the spirit: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryHumor https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNilism And org-mode really useful part of it: https://wikemacs.org/wiki/Org-mode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgMode and some obligatory short movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnMntOQjs7Q -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
