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Article #3298Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself?
From: Dave Goldblatt
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 14:12
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 14:12
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From article <1414@spp2.UUCP>, by baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur):
> # now try ... (this will work)
> $ cp `which emacs` /tmp # gnu-emacs
> $ emacs /tmp/emacs
> # now in emacs do
> (replace-regexp "Emacs" "EMACS")
> (save-file)
> <quit>
>
> And the resulting binary runs. (Tested on SUN-3 and UNIX-PC)
>
> GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself. Don't leave home without
> it.
Freemacs will work as well..
Freemacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself, and yet small enough
to fit on your PC.
'course the author just said "..and the only freely-copyable programmable
editor for your PC.." :-)
Both are true. ;-)
-dg-
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe!dave From: dave@sun.soe (Dave Goldblatt) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself? Message-ID: <1339@sun.soe> Date: 9 Sep 88 14:12:25 GMT References: <1414@spp2.UUCP> Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 31