On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:39:32 +0900, Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > "One size fits all" is definitely not the Emacs philosophy. <laugh> In > fact, I'd venture to say that it is the exact opposite of the Emacs > way. With more than five mail clients, three ways of browsing the Web, > and numerous libraries for doing everything from making coffee[1] to > playing Tetris[2], the wealth of code available for Emacs attests to > its _fun_ as a hacking platform.
Ummm.. yeah. What I meant was, the cosmos of emacs-fans do *everything with emacs* -- emacs is the be-all and end-all. That's what "one [emacs] fits all" is all about. which isn't surprising, since you could consider emacs a complete *runtime environment* or even a sorta-OS. but let's face it, emacs lisp isn't exactly the greatest solution to all the world's problems. It's great at some things, but i've seen some pretty ugly things that were done in the name of lisp (well that was in sawfish, but i digress..) of course the legions of the emacs-faithful will point to their cornucopia of add-ons and the infinite levels of customization. that's a feature to you, not a bug -- but there's a whole other world of people for which that's a bug, not a feature. :) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
