Re: Apologia for bzr

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden>wrote:
>
>> Lennart Borgman writes:
>>  > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>   > It is very different in one way. An editor is a tool you start
>>  > with.
>>
>> That's not what Eric's talking about.  The point he is making, it
>> seems to me, is that Emacs is not an editor, it is a text editing
>> environment or toolkit.  Similarly, git is not a VCS, it is an
>> environment for developing a VCS.  Not to the same extent that today's
>> Emacs is a development environment for editors, but then Richard had
>> several years of experience with using a editor language to create the
>> Emacs Lisp and GNU Emacs that is the direct ancestor of today's Emacs.
>
> When you start with Emacs it is just an editor, nothing more.

You mean, like an arranged marriage just starts with a spouse, nothing
more?

Women start with vi in the hope it will change, men with Emacs in the
hope it will stay the same.  Both are disappointed.

-- 
David Kastrup