A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System

Re:A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System by jacobush on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:00AM (#16616756)

The problem for me with Emacs is that (while I use it everyday for just about all editing, and recently org-mode) it's so damn brittle and hard to configure. It's like editing autoexec.bat on DOS and reboot to try your settings. Still, it's the best I've found.

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Re:A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System by TeMPOraL on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:37AM (#16617384)

I hope you don't reboot Emacs on every config change?

M-x eval-region, M-x eval-last-sexp and M-x eval-buffer are your friends. Emacs is, as suits a Lisp system, strongly runtime-modifiable. It even has its own REPL - M-x ielm.

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Re:A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System by jacobush on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:34PM (#16622862)

I have to learn these things.

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