Re: text editors
On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 06:46:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 01 April 2019 06:08:17 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:03:13PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> > > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> > > > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until
> > > > now d> I have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. I
> > > > have d> worked with PL and prolog for a while ... unfortunately I
> > > > think in d> coming years or decades it all will be declared dead
> > > > ... when the d> true AI from China will take over :D :D :D
> > > >
> > > > I think that Lisp was used in AI because it was the best language
> > > > you could find to code smart algorithms on... Figure implementing
> > > > mapcar in assembler or FORTRAN :)
> > >
> > > I think also, but no one uses it except for emacs or some niche
> > > programming.
> >
> > Do your reading before spewing nonsense:
> >
> > https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read
> >
> This would be a great read, if 90% of the text wasn't 90% white. What the
> hell is wrong with good old black text?
Yes, to think of all the time wasted by so-called web designers
when all I do with a page like that is press Ctrl-A Ctrl-C and
paste it all into an emacs buffer with Shft-Insert. That way,
I get to read it in *my* choice of font etc.
If the page looks interesting and worth keeping, then I press
Shft-Ctrl-% ! which doubles every Newline, and Escape 9999 Ctrl-Home
which then runs fill-region on every paragraph before saving it.
(These last two are the results of my "programming" ability in this
over-blown editor, ie my ability to cut and paste other people's
scraps. AFAIK no one, least of all User Services, was hurt in the
production of this code.)
Cheers,
David.
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