17 Nov
2018
17 Nov
'18
4:39 p.m.
From: Lars Brinkhoff
Emacs is very much divorced from the Unix philosopy.
However, it's
perfectly in synch with how things are done in ITS.
Hmm. It is complicated, but... the vast majority of my keystrokes are typed
into Epsilon (a wonderful, small, fast EMACS-type editor for Windows, etc
which one can customize in C) - especially since I started, very early on (V6)
to run my shell in an EMACS window, so I could edit commands, and thus I was
pretty much always typing to EMACS. So, it makes sense to me to have it be
powerful - albeit potentially a bit complex.
I say 'potentially' because one could after all restrict oneself to the 4
basic motion commands, and 'delete character'; you don't have to learn
what
CRTL-ALT-SHIFT-Q does.
Stallman .. developing GNU Emacs (from Gosling's
version)
Err, I'm not sure how much influence Gosling's was. He had, after all, done
the original EMACS on ITS; I got the impression he just set off on his own
path to do GNU Emacs. (Why else would it be implemented in LISP? :-).
Noel