Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-30 Thread Peter Haworth
On 26 Jan 2002 06:33:14 -0800, (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > "Newton," == Newton, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Newton,> Ouch. Was it that badly misaligned in the Google result, or did > Newton,> your mailer mangle it? > > It looked perfectly aligned to me. Viewing the message in a

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Newton, Philip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > In which case, I suppose my point is "no steenking tabs"[*] in ASCII art. > > > > so you are saying that tabs in code are also bad? ;-) > Yep, or rather I am. However avoid doing : :1,$s/^I/ /

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Newton, Philip wrote: > Harry Barman wrote: > > Yes, I also remember that comment. I really should have kept > > a copy of just the comment. Luckily through the magic of > > google here it is! > > > > > > > > /-\ > > /

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Newton, Philip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In which case, I suppose my point is "no steenking tabs"[*] in ASCII art. > so you are saying that tabs in code are also bad? ;-) or have we already had this holy war this week ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Newton, Philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Newton," == Newton, Philip > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Newton,> Phi "always use a monospace font for posting ASCII art" lip > > And I use monospace font for reading email. Your point? Mea culpa. Apparently, my MUA uses 6 character increments for tabs.

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Newton," == Newton, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Newton,> Ouch. Was it that badly misaligned in the Google result, or did your mailer Newton,> mangle it? It looked perfectly aligned to me. Newton,> Phi "always use a monospace font for posting ASCII art" lip And I use monospace fon

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Newton, Philip
Harry Barman wrote: > Yes, I also remember that comment. I really should have kept > a copy of just the comment. Luckily through the magic of > google here it is! > > > >/-\ > / \ > /

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-25 Thread Harry Barman
Original message >Date: 25 Jan 2002 06:50:19 -0800 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) >Subject: Re: Who invented Emacs? >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... >Yes. And I've seen the source. There's a big section with a big >ASCII-graphics death

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Newton," == Newton, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Newton,> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My first exposure to emacs on Unix was "gosling emacs". Newton,> Did you ever hear it called "GOSMACS"? Yes. And I've seen the source. There's a big section with a big ASCII-graphics death-head

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-25 Thread Newton, Philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My first exposure to emacs on Unix was "gosling emacs". Did you ever hear it called "GOSMACS"? Related links: * http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/EMACS.html * http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/GOSMACS.html * http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> Hmmm, so Gosling re-wrote emacs in C, ported it to Unix, and then Jonathan> watched while Stallman removed all his code for copyright reasons. lol. Jonathan> Still, claiming to have done "the original Unix Emacs editor"

Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-21 Thread Jonathan Peterson
I just read an article where Gosling frantically tries to explain why C# is not a threat and Java is still the best thing since sliced bread. He also claims that he invented Emacs. Is this true? I always thought it was Stallman, but let's face it Stallman would be happy to forget to mention it if