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Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:38 pm
by greggh
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25335
After more than three decades of work, the message from Richard Stallman, creator of the GNU Emacs text editor and keeper of its flame since 1976, couldn't possibly have been more matter of fact:
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From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Looking for a new Emacs maintainer or team
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:22 -0500
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Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:07 pm
by akuma624
please forgive this n00b question but is emacs strickly a CLI app or is there a GUI version?
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:39 pm
by adam
akuma624 wrote:please forgive this n00b question but is emacs strickly a CLI app or is there a GUI version?
I believe that by default, it is a gui application but it can be run in the shell with the "-nw" argument.
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:07 pm
by davijordan
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:37 am
by allix
I have one lecturer that uses emacs as a file manager, he will have a pdf on display and whenever he wants to change the pdf , he just uses emacs instead of the adobe acrobat reader open dialogue box. He has edited(edited Latex code) in emacs, pdfs on the fly and a few python scripts.
Anyway, i am a vi user
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:17 am
by greggh
allix wrote:Anyway, i am a vi user
vi vi vi is the work of the devil according to RMS
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:20 pm
by Tsuroerusu
greggh wrote:allix wrote:Anyway, i am a vi user
vi vi vi is the work of the devil according to RMS
"It is true that vi-vi-vi is the editor of the beast. But using a free version of vi is not a sin but a penance.” - Richard Stallman.
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:21 pm
by davijordan
I have seen video of him at lectures in what looks to be jesus type costume. I does not take that much code to create a very simple editor program. but I will admit emacs seems to be a powerhouse in software. I use vim...... (and my own simple editor system aka moses)
Re: Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:12 pm
by ubergeekinc
akuma624 wrote:please forgive this n00b question but is emacs strickly a CLI app or is there a GUI version?
Its both.