Re: Good Lisp editor for Win

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Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blazeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 14, 6:31 pm, t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Thomas A. Russ) wrote:
Jacobite1607 <Jacobite1...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Jul 5, 4:39 pm, Francogrex <fra...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

references to Emacs. In all honesty I tried Emacs and I hate it,

I didn't care for emacs either. To me it seemed unnatural, largely
because Windows has certain standard keystrokes that are second
natural, Emacs went away from those and in the process was awkward.

Hmmm.  Interesting case of reverse causation.

Emacs was created in 1976
MSDOS was created in 1981
Windows was create in 1983 (1985?)

So, who went away from whom?
Who cares. History is written by the winners, windows won the war,
windows decides what is standard and what's not.
People don't want changes. Ctrl-Z means undo and it should mean undo
on emacs BY DEFAULT or it'll be thrashed by masses of people who are
used to Ctrl-Z meaning undo.


That's why Aquamacs on the Mac is quite successful. It is
a distribution of GNU Emacs with Mac-like extensions.
command-z is undo, there. Btw., the z for undo, c for copy
x for cut, v for paste is coming from the Mac OS copied by MS.
Don't know if Xerox used zxcv, though...

People don't want t be corrected. Sure your comments are valid and
logical but humans aren't logical. Who wrote The Man Who Sold the
World ? Nirvana . Wrong it's a David Bowie's song. But correct
somebody and they'll say that you're wrong, and when you point them to
your sources they will hate you. Or start the baseline of Under
Pressure and everybody sings Ice ice baby. Truth matters the least,
unless it some strong law that reminds humans about reality everytime
they try something foolish (like Gravity). And History doesn't have
that power.

--
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute

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