{"id":500,"date":"2009-01-08T23:35:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T22:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-01-08T23:35:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T22:35:54","slug":"emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/emacs\/","title":{"rendered":"emacs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t said it here before, but I feel I really should. I’ve been an avid emacs<\/a> user since I started to learn it back in 1991 on emacs 18. I worked at IBM with their RS\/6000 machines at the time and I learned C on AIX<\/a> with emacs as my editor.<\/p>\n

To me there was no alternative at that time and I soon learned all the quirks, got used to things and appreciated all the beautiful parts – my fellow colleagues being emacs fans of course helped pushing me into that team. For the fun of it, I’ve checked when vim<\/a> was started and I’ve learned that it got available for “unix” in 1992. And it probably was quite far away from a real emacs competitor at that time. The vi<\/a> editor was of course there, but it had no C syntax indent support and it used and still uses that quirky “mode” approach that I’ve never liked.<\/p>\n

I came from hacking the C64 to programming Amiga over to AIX and I was used to and liked full-screen editors without any particular mode switching<\/a> necessary. Still today I find it a bit curious how vi (in the shape of vim) can be this popular given that (in my view) funny concept.<\/p>\n

While I do see some of the benefits of XEmacs over GNU Emacs<\/a> I always disable all menus, icons and toolbars so to me in real-life editing the differences don’t mean a lot, so I tend to go with the plain GNU Emacs.<\/p>\n

So, I’ve pretty much used Emacs just about daily at work and in my spare time hacking since then. Even during the few times I’ve been locked in at a windows desktop I’ve managed to get a windows version installed to survive my days!<\/p>\n

Thank you emacs team!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t said it here before, but I feel I really should. I’ve been an avid emacs user since I started to learn it back in 1991 on emacs 18. I worked at IBM with their RS\/6000 machines at the time and I learned C on AIX with emacs as my editor. To me there … Continue reading emacs!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-floss","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}