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Man for an older person he is using a really small font on his screen! Also: looks like a GNU/Linux variant not windows or macOS.

by plg 6y ago

sasaf5 6y ago
True. The editor on the left side does look like emacs.
- alxlaz 6y ago
  That's the FVWM window manager. His FVWM config (or at least some version of it) is available if you're curious: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/.fvwm2rc https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/.fvwm2rc .
  - sasaf5 6y ago
    Thanks so much for this link! It also explains what I am seeing in that picture: "Now comes the fun part: Buttons to push that will take me from one desktop to another. Being a control freak, I am not trusting FvwmButtons to find the correct button layout; I'm building it myself. The goal is to have a 64x64 ASClock at the upper right, preceded by four 32x32 buttons that will aim my display at another desktop, all above a 16x128 CPU load display. Geometry-wise, I consider it to be an 8x5 grid of 16x16 squares (although I could have regarded it as a 4x5 grid of 32x16s)."
  - ISL 6y ago
    That's the most-pleasant .rc file I've ever read.
  - lepasana 6y ago
    Thank you for this.. When I see the picture in the article, I was wondering what kind of editor he is using
  - smabie 6y ago
    Man, he's really bought in to that whole literate programming thing..
  - apricot 6y ago
    Damn, even his .rc files are a joy to read.
- weinzierl 6y ago
  Attended one of his lectures many years ago and he was indeed using Emacs back then. Don't remember which OS but I think the whole session he was just in Emacs most of the time. Also one time he stopped and was puzzled what was going on, quickly realizing that he'd forgotten to save the file. Still to this day when I forget to save I remember this and think : "If it can happen to Knuth it's ok if it happens to you"
globular-toast 6y ago
Knuth does indeed use emacs. There are some elisp modules on his site somewhere. He has also said that he uses other OSes, but only trusts GNU/Linux with the "crown jewels".
kps 6y ago
And in the older photo, that's a SAIL keyboard¹, isn't it? ¹ http://xahlee.info/kbd/sail_keyboard.html http://xahlee.info/kbd/sail_keyboard.html

Man for an older person he is using a really small font on his screen! Also: looks like a GNU/Linux variant not windows or macOS.

by plg 6y ago

Man for an older person he is using a really small font on his screen! Also: looks like a GNU/Linux variant not windows or macOS.

sasaf5 6y ago

True. The editor on the left side does look like emacs.

alxlaz 6y ago
That's the FVWM window manager. His FVWM config (or at least some version of it) is available if you're curious: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/.fvwm2rc https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/.fvwm2rc .
- sasaf5 6y ago
  Thanks so much for this link! It also explains what I am seeing in that picture: "Now comes the fun part: Buttons to push that will take me from one desktop to another. Being a control freak, I am not trusting FvwmButtons to find the correct button layout; I'm building it myself. The goal is to have a 64x64 ASClock at the upper right, preceded by four 32x32 buttons that will aim my display at another desktop, all above a 16x128 CPU load display. Geometry-wise, I consider it to be an 8x5 grid of 16x16 squares (although I could have regarded it as a 4x5 grid of 32x16s)."
- ISL 6y ago
  That's the most-pleasant .rc file I've ever read.
- lepasana 6y ago
  Thank you for this.. When I see the picture in the article, I was wondering what kind of editor he is using
- smabie 6y ago
  Man, he's really bought in to that whole literate programming thing..
- apricot 6y ago
  Damn, even his .rc files are a joy to read.
weinzierl 6y ago
Attended one of his lectures many years ago and he was indeed using Emacs back then. Don't remember which OS but I think the whole session he was just in Emacs most of the time. Also one time he stopped and was puzzled what was going on, quickly realizing that he'd forgotten to save the file. Still to this day when I forget to save I remember this and think : "If it can happen to Knuth it's ok if it happens to you"

globular-toast 6y ago

Knuth does indeed use emacs. There are some elisp modules on his site somewhere. He has also said that he uses other OSes, but only trusts GNU/Linux with the "crown jewels".

kps 6y ago

And in the older photo, that's a SAIL keyboard¹, isn't it? ¹ http://xahlee.info/kbd/sail_keyboard.html http://xahlee.info/kbd/sail_keyboard.html