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Re: [External] : Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern"


From: tomas
Subject: Re: [External] : Easy way to make Emacs look more "modern"
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:13:26 +0200

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 09:43:19PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:

[...]

> However, if there's one thing that really
> comes across as old-fashioned, IMO, it's
> talking about something being "modern" or
> more "modern".
> 
> That's been the watchword of has-been
> advertising since the middle of the 19th
> century (if not soon after Gutenberg).

:-)

I think the last thing entitled to that attribute
should be Computer Modern, and that is from the
eighties. And only because it's Donald Knuth. And
then, it was a pun on Times Modern from... 1931.

Cheers
-- 
t

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