Just use Emacs for everything
2008-01-22 / 09:38 / dave
…why is the Windows clipboard only capable of holding a single item?
Jeff Atwood, Improving the Clipboard
It’s a mystery to me why none of the major operating systems have bothered improving the clipboard. It seems entirely possible to add these enhancements without breaking the simple clipboard paradigms that have been around since the days of Xerox PARC.
Jeff Atwood, Reinventing the Clipboard
Just use Emacs!* I mean you can use it for everything. I guess that’s a bit hypocritical since I do my browsing in Firefox, but my browsing doesn’t involve that much pasting.
* Is there an easy to use acronym? Something like RTFM? JUE works, but it’s got a bad mnemonic.
EEINE
everything else is not emacs?
i’d say EINE, but EINE already means “EINE is not emacs”. EINE was the first emacs (re?)written entirely in lisp on MIT’s CADR hardware lisp machine.
a cool emacs timeline
just know that neither of us is ultra-hip until we use a CADR emulator to use emacs to do everything. (maybe right after we implement tcp/ip et cetera on CADR, no?)
heh.
Pronounced “eeny?” I could back that.
That timeline is impressive both in that Emacs has made it to version 22 (or 21) and that XEmacs has lived a parallel life for 15 years. Oh the effects of the FSF.