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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Scott (daoem at geocities.com):

> Rick Moen I guess someone said some time ago that you wrote emacs.  

Wow.  I wish!

I'm a big fan of vim, but have heard some extremely compelling 
arguments for xemacs (aka "Gosmacs", and formerly known as Lucid 
emacs), if you live in an editor for writing code, and won't be having 
to move from machine to machine often.

I say the latter because emacs (either GNU emacs or xemacs) with one's
own customised keybindings is said to be heaven, but with some other
guy's it's hell.

The original emacs (sometimes called "Gnumacs" or "Stallmacs") was 
written by Richard M. Stallman of MIT (at first entirely in TECO macros, 
running on ITS).  xemacs was written (in C) by James Gosling.

(A popular misconception is that xemacs requires X.  It doesn't.
Equally popular is the notion that GNU emacs fails to take advantage
of X.  It does.)

-- 
Cheers,                     "All power is delightful, but absolute power
Rick Moen                    is absolutely delightful."  - Kenneth Tynan
rick (at) hugin.imat.com 

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