Re: Seeking computer-programming job (Sunnyvale, CA)

From:

Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sun, 24 May 2009 20:58:24 GMT

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<4A19B4AD.7060103@telia.com>

Seamus MacRae wrote:

Lars Enderin wrote:

Seamus MacRae wrote:

Lars Enderin wrote:

Emacs communicates directly with X

Not possible. If it had been designed to do so, then it would follow
that a) it did not predate X, b) it could not be used remotely over a
terminal, and c) it used the X clipboard. However, a) it does predate
X, b) it can be used remotely over a terminal, and c) it has its own
internal clipboard. On the other hand, if it had not been designed to
do so, it could not do so now without being completely rewritten, and
the result of such a rewrite would not be emacs.

Everybody but you describes the current (GNU) Emacs.

Whereas I, above, described a generic application in an agnostic manner.
"It" could be any software for which it was true that a) it predated X,
b) it had been observed to be used remotely over a terminal, and c) it
had its own internal clipboard, and the above would still hold.

Irrelevant. The current emacs is GNU Emacs or XEmacs. The rest is history.

Of course it's completely rewritten since RMS's first version in 1976,
so what?

If this is true, then what you are describing is not emacs. (Are you
also forgetting that GOSMACS was the first Unix emacs, and is definitely
not named for RMS?)

Emacs has been upgraded since the 70's. It's still called emacs.