From: Christian Lynbech on
>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Searles <searles(a)hoombah.nurt.bt.uk> writes:

Dave> They flame anyone who criticizes emacs, yet have no qualms about
Dave> calling every other text editor "crippled", "inefficient",
Dave> "lobotomized", ...

It may be that you and many others are happy with, say, the Eclipse
editor and that you feel it does enough of what you need to do, but
surely you will agree that it is a less powerfull editor than emacs.

Whether or not you feel that power to be usefull or not is beside the
point of it being more powerfull.


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Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk
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Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual.
- petonic(a)hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
From: Lars Rune Nøstdal on
On Sep 10, 10:05 am, Dave Searles <sear...(a)hoombah.nurt.bt.uk> wrote:
>
> How could I be anybody "other than myself"??? I am who I am. If you mean
> personal details, I'm tempted to say "none of your beeswax", but I guess
> I might as well reveal a little: Lisp hacker, fairly recently out of MIT,
> also software development using C (there aren't many Lisp jobs out there)..

MIT's been going down the shitter; no wonder. You sure fucked up. Time
to change your name again.
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