On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:06 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:01 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: > > > As long as you don't invoke the dreaded emacs you're all right with > > > me. (There's something wrong with an editor that hauls around an > > > eliza in every instance). > > > > Ok. Would you please repeat that, more slowly this time, and in newbie > > English? Thanks. > > Emacs is a honkin' big program that initially was intended to be an > editor. The vi crowd always thought that the name stood for "Eighty > Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". I was making fun of the propensity > of the emacs crowd to cram about everything they can into emacs. It's > got a lisp environment, and in there it has a program that simulates a > non-directive psychologist. The latter program's name is eliza, some > folks know it as doctor. All it really does is a simple word analysis of > your statements and regurgitates it back at you (or the generic response > "Hmmmm" if it can't figure out what to say).
Hmmm. Okay. I saw the psychologist tool when I was exploring emacs a few weeks ago but didn't make note of the name. :) Thanks for clearing that up. So, you're saying VI is a more compact program? <ducking> --
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