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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:08:12 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:18:06 pm | by GlynWebster | Revert |
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+!! ''[Emacs] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor.''
+
A programmers' text editor and [IDE]. See emacs(1).
-Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. It
is extensible with its
[Elisp] scripting language
, and almost everything
you could ever need (including a complete WebBrowser) has been written in ELisp. Emacs is an editor pretending to be an OperatingSystem
.
+Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. Its core
is an
[Elisp] interpreter which can be used to implement extensions, of which literally hundreds have been written - including a complete WebBrowser, MailClient, NewsReader
, and almost anything else
you could ever need.
-[Unix] programmers tend to settle on either Emacs or vi(1)
as their main programming environment, then pick on each other for their choices.
+[Unix] programmers tend to settle on either Emacs or [
vi|Vim]
as their main programming environment, then pick on each other for their choices.
-''Mandatory quote:''
-;:
''"[
Emacs] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor.
"''
-''--[Aristotle|AristotlePagaltzis]
"[Vim] is awesome
" [Pagaltzis|AristotlePagaltzis]
''
+''"Master, does
Emacs have the buddha nature?
" "Why not, it has everything else!
"''
