Are you a real programmer?

Re:Are you a real programmer? by softwarejim on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @02:57PM (#110420)

yup...I'm an emacs guy.

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Re:Are you a real programmer? by tjr on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @03:37PM (#110434)

GNU Emacs or XEmacs?

Or ?...

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Re:Are you a real programmer? by Prrometheus on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @04:24PM (#110464)

It took me forever to figure out that xemacs isn't emacs for X

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Re:Are you a real programmer? by bayareaguy on Thursday February 07, 2008 @05:58AM (#110855)

or (shudder) Emacs.NET !

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1069

the horror.. the horror..

Any good recursive acronyms for it?

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html

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Re:Are you a real programmer? by softwarejim on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @04:21PM (#110459)

GNU Emacs on Windows, but not for any special reason. Help convince me, is XEmacs better?

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Re:Are you a real programmer? by tjr on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @05:36PM (#110511)

Not necessarily better. I was just being silly, really; haven't used XEmacs myself for years.

XEmacs was a fork off of GNU Emacs. They did some good things with the software, but they were loose in their legal matters, and accordingly the FSF never accepted XEmacs code back into the GNU Emacs mainline.

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