Bloat I say, bloat!!

From:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-10/...
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-10/...
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-11/...

>> I would hope so, tomorrow will be 21.1's 3rd birthday! (I wasn't able
>> to find 21.1's release date in 15 seconds of googling so I don't know
>> how much older it is.)
>
> But three years old... made me do a double take.

The most recent release of Emacs was 21.3, which was released about a
year and a half ago. There will be a new release sometime in the murky
near future (as in, probably before June).

My impression is that Tom was previously using something like Emacs
18.50, so I expect anything without a crank would look pretty
impressive... :-)

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That's about right. What with fonts and images, 21 is looking to me
like what a web browser isf _supposed_ to be. A really, really, good
web browser. (needs "frames" (in the browser sense), tables,
arbitrary embedded X windows (in "frames" at least) ... hmm. that's
about it.)

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Well that explains everything! I was trying to use it as an editor.

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> Fool! If you want an editor, there's `ed'.

ed?! What luxury! In the days ... it was echo and cat for us...

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Why echo? cat is more than enough to write into files :)

% cat << FOO >> file.c
int main(){
...
}
FOO

Oh, maybe you have a luxury shell with echo built in :)

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You are of course assuming the luxury of a shell