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Re: Emacs vista build failures
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs vista build failures |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:20:47 +0900 |
Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I see no reason to think such an effect exists. Meanwhile, people
> have told me that the fact that Emacs runs on Windows undercut their
> ability to insist on running GNU/Linux at work.
This seems pretty surprising ... the sort of people that say "just use
windows" are also the sort to say "just use visual studio / notepad / ...".
In my _personal_ experience, emacs on windows has been something of a
nice tool to introduce people to the free software world. There are
other free apps like firefox that can do this too, but there's something
fairly unique about emacs -- it's not just "a better browser" or even
just "a better editor".
-miles
--
Alone, adj. In bad company.
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/26
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/26
- Re: Emacs vista build failures,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/25