Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] zbxtnet> wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> > First of all, there *must* be an Emacs mode for this. Because, let's
> > face it, there's an Emacs mode for everything else! :-P

> Why would there be Emacs mode for a hacker UI? After all, VI is the
> editor for hackers.

Well, it depends. After all, Emacs was pretty much created by Unix gurus
(which, in a sense, could well be called "hackers") for Unix gurus.

(After all, "hacker" in the most purist sense is someone who is extremely
knowledgeable and skilled about computer systems, how they work and how
they can be used, even in very unusual and unintended ways. For example
a Unix admin who knows the system thoroughly, has a very good understanding
of not only how the system works but also how it has been programmed, and
can even write things like a kernel module in a sitting, can very well be
called a "hacker.")

Emacs was most certainly not written with the average grandmother writing
an email to her grandson in mind.

Many argue that calling Emacs a text editor is a misnomer, really. What
Emacs really is, is an elisp interpreter with an integrated text editor.
If you know elips, you can make Emacs do almost anything (that elisp
supports.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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