Definitions
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- proper noun computing A particular
visual orWYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use ofcontrol characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.
Etymologies
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Compiling this file with C-c C-k in Emacs and calling the function start-it in the REPL will start the Jetty.
Interactive Programming with Clojure, Compojure, Google App Engine and Emacs 2009
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Compiling this file with C-c C-k in Emacs and calling the function start-it in the REPL will start the Jetty.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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I currently compose in Emacs org-mode for that reason.
Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Emacs is far superior to it, and Vim is far superior to Emacs.
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I for one use a the ‘doctor’ mode in Emacs to help me see my fears, concerns in a text file.
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I see plenty of this in Emacs modules and functions.
Reflective Surface - Open source and documentation, continued 2003
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Some people still use console browsers, or browse within Emacs.
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SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, which is a really really powerful IDE for Common Lisp.
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It is not like we are asking people to use GNU Emacs + LaTeX.
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Emacs would have caught that. strasmangelo jones Says:
alexz commented on the word Emacs
"The expansion of one of Emacs' backronyms is Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift, which neatly summarizes most of the modifier keys it uses, only leaving out Super." - 'Editor war' wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
March 28, 2015
alexz commented on the word Emacs
"Editing MACroS"
LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Linux Jargon talk.
April 29, 2018