Re: Commenting out lines

[Christoph Dalitz]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:16:33 -0400
Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> And BTW, what is an Emacs, anyway? Is it something like a Gnu?
> 
Some content that it is something like an X.

Seriously, Emacs is an editor with a builtin Lisp interpreter so
that it can be extended with Lisp macros. There are extensions
for a lot of stuff including reading mails, playing tetris and
running octave in a subwindow. I have even seen people using
Emacs as an editor ;-)

Note that there are two forks of Emacs: "Gnu" Emacs and "X" Emacs
which behave slightly differently and -what is worse- also have
a different set of builtin lisp macros so that macro packages
written for one fork not necessarily run with the other.

Christoph



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