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David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Mon Jun 10 12:49:19 PDT 2002

Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com> writes:

> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> > In my case, I read both mailing lists and newsgroups with the same
> > tool, so I do the same kind of scoring and sorting on both.  Very
> > handy.  (gnus)
> 
> I'll bet you use emacs, too, don't you?
> 
> :-)

Very clever guess!  (Since that's where gnus runs...)

In fact, I've considered Emacs to be the most wonderful text
manipulation tool around since 1981, when I started using Stallman's
original ITS Emacs (written in TECO) on a DECSYSTEM-20 (it could run
ITS software becuase the underlying hardware is the same, and there's
a software package called the "incompatibility package" that emulates
the ITS system calls on TOPS-20).  Since then I've used Gosling's
Emacs and now Stallman's GNU Emacs, plus various Emacs-like editors
including Jove, Amis, Fine, Epsilon, and various configurable editors
set to their emacs-like modes, including Microsoft Visual Studio and
Borland Sprint.  I've even got Microsoft Word configured for the basic
cursor movement commands; I do them so automatically I'm often 6
commands down the sequence before I notice the program isn't doing
what I said.  

It as a *great* day for me when I found that GNU emacs could build for
Windows and run natively!
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