Re: Emacs and Lynx Browser

[Emanuel Berg]

florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) writes:

> You probably mean the green-white one published by O'Reilly?

Yes.

> Interestingly, there are comparatively few Emacs books around, which
> is surprising given the stellar respectability the program has
> earned, and its versatility. (Compare that to the number of Perl
> books around - it's striking, isn't it?

It is *stupid*. When I applied to jobs as a programmer some time ago,
I always got the same moronic question, from people who knew nothing
of computers: "What programming languages do you know?" I tried to
answer that all programming is the same; what matters is your command
of *tools*. This never landed. And this imbalance in understanding is
reflected in the book market. I've never seen a book on irssi, on zsh,
on the man pages (groff etc.), and so on. But I've seen countless of
"OO Programming in Java". I don't get it; probably there is some
commercial thing behind it, as usual. But, instead of complaining, we
should start writing ourselves... DIY.

> The nice thing about the O'Reilly book is that it does a modest
> amount of advertising Emacs. I still remember one thing they kept
> mentioning: That it was integration that made Emacs so interesting.

Yes, but they don't mention two things: Gnus, and rmail. They don't
mention mail at all. That's such a huge part of everyday typing and
they "disintegrate" it without a blink of the eye. Otherwise, the book
is good, I agree.

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