The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years

Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ... by aasasd on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @04:18AM (#18805085)

The secret is that lots of Emacs commands actually call Elisp code, not the internals of the editor―you can invoke help on a command and then navigate to the code of the function.

(I have to confess that this sometimes comes useful in adding customization to those commands.)

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Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ... by bitwize on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:29AM (#18805535)

Emacs blew my Goddamned mind one day when I was using M-. to examine the Lisp implementations of various Emacs commands. One day I dug a little too far and tried to examine the source to what turned out to be an Emacs primitive -- but that didn't slow down M-., which happily jumped straight into the Emacs C source to show me the implementation of the primitive. (I had compiled this Emacs on my own, and apparently it remembered where it was compiled.)

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Re:The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than ... by paradoxparalax on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @04:39AM (#18805139)

Thanks for the clarification. I have to learn those magics someday.

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