Announcement: macports.el, an Emacs porcelain for MacPorts

Michele Venturi dardo82 at gmail.com
Tue May 3 05:38:08 UTC 2022


For editing subtitles emacs is more integrated with mpv
than vim, it's also part of the GNU suit of tools, so it is a
natural choice; I just waited because I didn't need it till
now and vim was more than enough to do simple edits.


Il mar 3 mag 2022, 07:09 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> ha scritto:

> On Tue, 3 May 2022, Peter West wrote:
>
> > Ah, a trivia magnet.
>
> Trivia R Us :-)
>
> > Fun fact: emacs, of that which was to become emacs, was originally
> > written in TECO, an editor, and obviously a very powerful one.
> >
> > TECO attracted its own expansions. My favourite – Text Eraser and
> > COrrupter.
>
> Added to my list...
>
> Having had to learn to use TECO in the past (a contract job when still at
> Uni), I used to type a name into it to see what it did (every character
> was a command)...
>
> Now, the most that I can remember these days is:
>
>     E$ - edit and take a backup
>
> Well, as least to delete a line in VI was "dd"...  It was difficult to do
> something dangerous with it.
>
> -- Dave
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