On 10 Sep 2004, at 09:59, Andy Holyer wrote:
On 10 Sep 2004, at 02:54, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 19:41 -0500 9/9/04, Ian Ragsdale wrote:
Shell "worksheets" (allows easy editing & running of shell commands)
And there is by far the most important item. When the MacPerl port
ran as an MPW tool it looked a whole lot like UNIX perl and you could
run it from a command line, with arguments, and redirect output to
another open window or to a file. Any open window, if it contained
"shell" commands, could be invoked as a tool by simply naming it.
I am told, by my son, that the best replacement for MPW in OS neXt is
really emacs but it requires that I learn smalltalk or something
similar and, though I have read the book, I just ain't there. X11
isn't that easy to use either with my four monitors.
Lisp, actually. You don't really need to know ant coding to use emacs
(I don't recall doing any programming at least in the last ten years
or so).
Then again, I learned to use emacs some time early 1986, so your
milage may well vary.
The GNU version for OS X which runs windowing is really nice with the
one irritation that it uses emacs cut/paste/etc control keys rather
than mac ones (so paste is ctrl-y, for example). Before someone pops
up with "why would they do that?" remember most of the emacs
control-key bindings date back to the TOPS-10 days, so they probably
predate Unix, let alone the Macintosh.
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