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Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:08:12 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-A programers
' text editor and
[IDE
]. See emacs(1).
+!! '
'[Emacs
] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor
.''
-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
.
+A programmers' text editor
and [IDE
]. See emacs
(1
).
-[Unix
] programmers tend
to settle on either Emacs or vi(1) as their main programming environment
, then pick on each other for their choices
.
+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
.
-''Mandatory quote:''
-;: ''"
[Emacs] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor
."''
-''--[Aristotle|AristotlePagaltzis]
"[Vim] is awesome
" [Pagaltzis|AristotlePagaltzis]
''
+[Unix] programmers tend to settle on either
Emacs or [vi|Vim
] as their main programming environment, then pick on each other for their choices
.
+
+''"Master, does Emacs have the buddha nature?" "Why not, it has everything else!
"''