[ale] Why I run emacs

[Chuck Payne]

Emacs wants to be it on OS at time with the amount that it can do.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> ...
>> Honestly, I would be *truly* happy if there were an editor like Emacs
>> that was always in input mode (command mode in vi is evil, especially on
>> low bandwidth, high latency links where you can't keep track of what
>> fscking mode you're in), but was extended using Python instead of LISP.
>> Seriously.
>
> Hmm.
>
>  http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/
>
> Maybe after "(require 'cl)" emacs can use python-on-lisp to
> grant your wish.  Minimalists will react violently, though, if
> they find out what you've done.  ;)
>
> I thought lisp was a little odd, but there's good lisp support
> in emacs of course, and there's emacs lisp documentation
> that's helpful.  Breaking stuff up into little functions makes
> programming easier, and then it's just a question of saying
>
> (if (> 1 2)
>    (message "1 > 2")
>  (message "1 isn't > 2"))
>
> ... instead of
>
> if 1 > 2:
>    print "1 > 2"
> else:
>    print "1 isn't > 2"
>
> --
>   Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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