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[ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...
- Subject: [ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...
- From: lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey Myers)
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:15 -0500
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Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Even after being taught how to use emacs years ago in a training
> class where the software maker thought it was "da bomb" I went right
> back to using vi when I got back to my office because I simply
> couldn't see any great benefit of emacs. The funny thing is the
> discussion about emacs being a Linux abomination. I first saw it on
> UNIX long before I started working on any Linux system.
Yeah, it's been around a long while. The old joke was:
emacs == eight megs and constantly swapping
That should tell you how long it's been around as that was when 8 megs
was a LOT of memory.
--
Until later, Geoffrey
"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
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