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It may not be an interesting story from that perspective, but from the perspective of an emacs user, I had no idea that emacs did this. Reading about how it wor
by xxpor 11y ago
It may not be an interesting story from that perspective, but from the perspective of an emacs user, I had no idea that emacs did this. Reading about how it works has been super interesting (with a healthy dose of wat thrown in). I'm glad it was posted.
- TheCondor 11y agoIt's worth compiling emacs and understanding it all. It is interesting.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoSo let me see if I get this. The build process runs a huge autoconf etc., then compiles from C code a proto-emacs, which is then executed and loads up a bunch of Lisp code, then a (self-described as) ugly hack is used to dump that running program (including the loaded Lispy-bits) as a new executable, which is your editor? Wow.