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Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs
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Lars Brinkhoff |
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Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs |
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Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:19:15 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Mario Lang wrote:
> Emacs works with graphical toolkits on all major platforms, but also
> offers a almost-feature-complete text interface.
Emacs is a manifestation of the ITS user interfaces. They all relied on
text because that's all that was available back then. They also used
control characters, Altmode/Escape/Meta, and prefix arguments.
> I am seeing Emacs as a platform to write "apps" in Emacs Lisp.
In this sense, Emacs is a Lisp machine. Not surprisingly, those came
from the same place as ITS: the MIT AI Lab.
- Emacs is very special regarding UIs, Mario Lang, 2020/09/08
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, T.V Raman, 2020/09/08
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs,
Lars Brinkhoff <=
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, T.V Raman, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, andres . ramirez, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, T.V Raman, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, Lars Brinkhoff, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, andrés ramírez, 2020/09/10
Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, Mario Lang, 2020/09/15