Ken Tilton wrote:
No wonder the GPL has gone nowhere.
Bwaahahahaha. Keep smokin' that crack, there.
Freely. RMS reasonably wanted that
add-42 not get co-opted, but that in no way necessitated the land grab
that is GPL.
You (and probably KMP) are presuming the validity of copyright
Timofei Shatrov wrote:
What an idiot. At least get yourt facts straight before posting such
bullshit.
I think at this stage it's quite reasonable to assume he's trolling, and
recycling old trolls, too. Certainly looks like someone very like him
used to haunt rec.games.roguelike.development as
Thomas Bellman wrote:
I seem to recall that EMACS, the old TECO version on TOPS-20 and
ITS, only supported two windows (panes in Twisted's words). So
it's not *completely* false, just extremely outdated.
Well, that's going back a bit. I somehow doubt he was using that, but I
guess it's
Bjorn Borud wrote:
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| I guess ultimately I'm trying to argue the point that just because a
| tool was written with a GUI or on Windows does not automatically
| make it any less a productive tool than a text based terminal tool.
| Even in windows, you can use
Twisted wrote:
Of course not. It's too hard to get started using it, so I gave up on
it years ago.
So wtf makes you think you're remotely qualified to comment about
emacs as it stands today? Idiot.
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Twisted wrote:
You end up having to memorize the help, because *you can't
have arbitrary parts of the help and your document open side by side
and be working on the document*.
WTF? Of course you can. http://oldr.net/emacs_two_frames.png
I don't know why people keep harping about what
Twisted wrote:
If I sit down at a windows text editor (or
even kwrite or similar) I can just focus on the job. Faced with emacs
or most other text-mode editors (but not MS-DOS Edit, interestingly)
the editor keeps intruding on my focus. Oops.
emacs or most other text-mode editors sounds
William James wrote:
Actually, it's 'among', not 'amongst', except to those who are
lisping, degenerate pansies.
lisping: amongst = amongthpt ?
amongst is a fairly common british english variant of among.
Some pronunciations and usages froze when they reached the
American shore. In
Actually, in English, parenthesis means the bit in between the
brackets.
The various kinds of brackets (amongst other punctuation marks
including, in most english texts, commas) *demarcate* parentheses.
Wikipedia's Parenthesis (rhetoric) is, at time of writing, the correct
British English
Paul Rubin wrote:
Forth was always unreadable to me but I never did much. I thought its
aficionados were silly. Yes if you have a complicated math expression
in Lisp, you have to sit there for a moment rearranging it in infix in
your mind to figure out what it says. The point is that such
James Graves wrote:
But coverage in this area (compiled CL) is a bit thin, I'll admit.
But who really cares? After all, there are the mature commercial
proprietary lisp compilers for those people who insist on using
closedware OSes, and they've already proven they're willing to use
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