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Tag Name "Emacs" (9)

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Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
Tom Christiansen
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Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.
Chris DiBona
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I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
Neal Stephenson
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People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Richard Stallman
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The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere extension language. It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!
Richard Stallman
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
Donald Knuth
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If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter it simply makes everything else vanish.
Neal Stephenson
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No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
Richard Stallman
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I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.
Todd Bennett