Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Steven Degutis]

I've wanted to write a text editor, but I don't know how to do syntax
highlighting.

Also, your response reminds me so much of the Workflow xkcd comic.
http://xkcd.com/1172/

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Steven Degutis wrote:
>> I'm so tired of how Emacs so desperately clings onto the 80s and 90s.
>
> I am so tired of how people take current working tools and modify them
> to be something completely different that breaks it for everyone who
> was using it.  GNOME 3 is a good recent example but there are others
> before it.
>
> If you want to take emacs, or any other tool, and fork it off and go
> into a different direction that is great!  I fully support you doing
> that.  Emacs has been forked many times already.  That is one of the
> awesome things about free(dom) software.  It gives you the ability to
> modify and customize it.  If you think emacs is backwards then write
> it your way reversed.  Call it "scame" because it wouldn't be emacs.
>
> But don't break the existing emacs users to build that new tool.  Just
> build that new tool.  Don't make your gain a loss for others.
>
> "I love you.  You are perfect.  Now change."  I *hate* that!
>
>> So many of its defaults are idiotic, so many legacy features it tries
>> to support are just terrible and useless.
>
> Then fork it and do your own thing!  But please don't break it for me.
>
>> I often wish there was a modern emacs clone that dropped all these
>> legacy features.
>
> Do it!  The source is there for you.  Or start clean with an empty
> directory.  There are no limits.
>
> Bob
>