Isn't emacs a mail or news reader? What does it have to do with perl and editing?
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It has nothing at all to do with editing, of course. I think you're wrong about what EMACS is, though, I thought it was an interface for "adventure", isn't it? "You're in a maze of twisty corridors, all alike" and all that?
Dave "vim, actually..." Hinz
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Nope, and the OP must've missed the fact you work @ Intel. :)
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Oh! I'm sorry!
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Hrrm? emacs runs just fine on a lot of OS's which run on Intel processors. It might even run on windows too, but I'm not likely to try for at least two reasons.
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You wanna be SHUNNED?! Harrumpf, indeed. Trying to start a RELIGIOUS discussion on the wreck. Sheesh. (G)
Jim
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VAX/VMS rules! Or at least it did once upon a time. j4
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Hint (No, not the singular of 'hinz' :): Look up the name of the guy who _invented_ the language.
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Yeah - just tugging at his leg and ignoring BSD's, Linux's, etc. Thanks for the Adventure reminder. Played it on a DEC-10, odd machine that one, years ago.
Took me and a co-worker a couple of months to finish it, but we did. He had the patience to map out the second maze.
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There are days that I *really* wish that Al Capp's mythical radical student group from the 1960's/1970's -- "Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything" -- actually existed, and that I had them as a client. Just imagine the line-item on the resume': "Casting PERLs before S.W.I.N.E."
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Er, yeah, I know that. I actually got an email from him years ago, answering a perl question I had put in one of the mailing lists. Must've been a worthy question but I can't remember what it was about anymore.
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What ever gave you the idea that EMACS is a mail or news reader? It's one of the two standard editing tools in the Unix world, the other being vi, and the choice of which is something of a religious issue akin to gun control or "Mac vs PC". Perhaps you are confused because there is a newsreader ("gnews") that runs under EMACS.
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Caught one!!! Hook, line, and sinker! :^)
I'll quit using vim and xterms when you pry my cold, dead fingers from my keyboard.
Chris