Comments on: Is emacs the OS for MSNBC? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:19:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: John Swindle https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541201 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:19:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541201 Greg: That vi “instruction” illustrates another reason to be grateful for emacs. Without it, we’d have been stuck with vi until things like nano came along.

]]> By: John Swindle https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541200 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:32:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541200 ancientTechie, no, Nano is a fine editor. But admit it: when using emacs, don’t you feel a sense of profundity? No?

]]> By: ancientTechie https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541199 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:44:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541199 Am I the only nano fan who reads this blog? Call me a wuss, if you must…

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541198 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:30:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541198 Tony: That’s all? What about games? File management? Aerobics? (for your pinky finger).

BTW, this is funny:

http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/religion/vi-tutorial.html

]]> By: Tony Sidaway https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541197 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:36:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541197 The stories about Emacs geeks using it for “everything” are fairly accurate. I’ve used it for email, Usenet, contact lists and web browsing.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541196 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:01:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541196 Yet another theory is that a database is being used and quotations are not being properly stripped from the text query results.

]]> By: Tony Sidaway https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541195 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:37:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541195 This sounds like wild speculation. Do you really have any reason to suppose that the single quote or apostrophe has anything at all to do with Lisp, and Emacs in particular?

Even supposing it likely that some variety of Lisp were being used for this purpose, and supposing further that he used symbols instead of strings to store the words to be displayed on screen as “dummy notes”, why would somebody acquainted with the language make such a gross error as to write the value of the symbol in Lisp format rather than converting it to a string for output as a word?

]]> By: John Swindle https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541194 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:34:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541194 Ya gotta admire emacs for its versatility. I used to encounter tales of highly skild nerds who used it for everything… mail, news, programming, general writing, games… everything. Of course, in those days, “everything” didn’t encompass what it does now. It would be nice to think it’s showing up again in this new-fangled task.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541193 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:20:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541193 Hmmm… Coincidence?

]]> By: Eric Robinson https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541192 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:17:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/06/is-emacs-the-os-for-msnbc/#comment-541192 Excel also uses this format for text. It used to be that you had to type the apostrophe to let Excel know the cell would be text rather than a number.

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