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Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was

by jf 13y ago

Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.

omaranto 13y ago
What does hacking ON Emacs lisp mean? Does it mean working on Emacs's lisp interpreter's source? Or on some project written in Emacs lisp?
- pvdm 13y ago
  For me it means writing an .el extension.
  - jf 13y ago
    Yes. After the event was over, I asked him what he had been working on, it was some code to identify what sort of buffer he had just opened (secure v. insecure, I don't remember the details)
  - omaranto 13y ago
    I would call that hacking in Elisp, not on Elisp, which is why I asked.
stettix 13y ago
Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!