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[Discuss] RMS in the news
- Subject: [Discuss] RMS in the news
- From: bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:23:03 -0400
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On 9/19/2019 9:55 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > On 9/19/2019 5:03 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> I was an emacs guy. Learned vi in about 1980, but when I worked for cadmus >> I learned gosling emacs. Used it for all my development until I switched >> to atom > No less an authority than Neal Stephenson wrote "I use emacs, which > might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor."^1 > > Bill > > 1. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson I have just been told that Neal Stephenson switched from emacs to a different word processor, and then to writing with a fountain pen. Since I find fountain pens very hard to use, does anyone know which software Mr. Stephenson used in between emacs and his pen? TIA. Bill -- Bill Horne 828-678-1548
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