[CLUE-Tech] my beloved pine and pico

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Sat Feb 7 16:53:05 MST 2004


On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:50:20 -0700
dhawkins at cdrgts.com (Dale K. Hawkins) wrote:

> 2.  most emacs installations are sufficiently modern to present the
>     new user with a WIMP interface for editing files.

WIMP?

BTW, I forgot to mention that I'd read someplace that part of the reason
for Emacs' command interface being what it is, is that it was originally
developed with an eye to the "space cadet" keyboard.
http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet.html And what a keyboard it
is!

jed
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