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Emacs is a miracle, no doubts. It is self-descriptive and self-contained system, like Smalltalk (you could lookup any function, variable or even key-binding, wi
by dschiptsov 13y ago
Emacs is a miracle, no doubts. It is self-descriptive and self-contained system, like Smalltalk (you could lookup any function, variable or even key-binding, without a fancy browser, but in a way that is good enough). There is nothing much to say, actually. Emacs is just a wonderful thing.
- patrickmay 13y agoIndeed. The most value I got from from learning to customize Emacs wasn't the functionality I implemented but seeing how powerful a domain specific language can be. The ways that Emacs Lisp supports working with text, whether data or code or documents, showed me what I should be aspiring to when I create a DSL.
- dschiptsov 13y agoImagine, then, what a wonderful thing Open Genera was.)
- DennisP 13y agoApparently an older version was opensourced at some point. I don't see why the people who love it don't port it to x86.
- dschiptsov 13y agoAnother not quite obvious thing about emacs is the result of ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-prefix=t \ --without-all --with-x-toolkit=no && make -s bootstrap Which will give you, say, your beloved Clojure's Nrepl on a remote machine over ssh. Yes, it works perfectly fine in a terminal.