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𝚛𝚊𝚝<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tilde.zone/@northernlights" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>northernlights</span></a></span> My peak productivity was with <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/edt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edt</span></a>/ <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ked</span></a> on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/vt102" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vt102</span></a>. From there <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ex</span></a>/ <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vi</span></a> felt like a step down and so <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a>/ <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neovim</span></a> remains a path never to be taken. Ported my own <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/microemacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microemacs</span></a> around for some time. These days will use <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/pico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pico</span></a>/ <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/nano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nano</span></a> for quick things, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> otherwise or because <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/slime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slime</span></a>. Had <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/brief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brief</span></a> (😜 ) run-in with <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/teco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teco</span></a>, memory of which is buried, because trauma, granting only a bonus giggle reading "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal". Didn't <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/notepad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notepad</span></a> win the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>editor</span></a> war in the end?</p>
LdBeth<p>Btw I just updated the jasspa <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/microemacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microemacs</span></a> so it builds as a 32bit app using much recent MSVC, and it picks up the changes made after the last binary release in 2009</p><p><a href="https://github.com/ipstone/microemacs/compare/master...LdBeth:microemacs:master" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ipstone/microemacs/</span><span class="invisible">compare/master...LdBeth:microemacs:master</span></a></p>
Leif<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ldbeth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ldbeth</span></a></span></p><p>Very nice to hear that <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MicroEmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroEmacs</span></a> is still around. I wish that would have happened to my simple <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Scame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scame</span></a> editor that I wrote in 1980 when I couldn't stand the ed/em/ex/vi family of editors.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/scame" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/larsbrinkhoff/scame</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>One thing I can boast about is that it was damned quick on the Vax11/70 with 12 student terminals.</p>
LdBeth<p>GNU <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> boot time is terribly long on Windose even with anti-virus scan disabled and minimal init.el, I remembered Jasspa <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MicroEmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroEmacs</span></a> and despite last update was in 2009 it still works well on Windose 11. Still for better Unicode support GNU Emacs is the way to go but the builtin mini games from microemacs is extremely fun, my favorite is mahjongg <a href="http://www.jasspa.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">jasspa.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Thomas Cherryhomes<p>Words can not express how transformative <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MicroEmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroEmacs</span></a> was to the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CommodoreAmiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommodoreAmiga</span></a> development community.</p><p>In just 9 short months after the first version was ported by Dave Conroy, it had been improved more than a dozen times, culminating in Andy Finkel's version that showed up on the Amiga Toolkit disk in early 1986.</p>
Joachim Wiberg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>itsfoss</span></a></span> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> since almost 30 year’s now. I even maintain my own fork of Mg <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MicroEmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroEmacs</span></a> 🤓</p><p><a href="https://github.com/troglobit/mg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/troglobit/mg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Joachim Wiberg<p>Allow me to present <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MicroEmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroEmacs</span></a> (mg2a) v3.7 based on the upstream OpenBSD mg. More of that GNU Emacs compatibility, more beginner friendly, and now also multi-arch Docker images.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/troglobit/mg/releases/tag/v3.7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/troglobit/mg/releas</span><span class="invisible">es/tag/v3.7</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/publicdomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicdomain</span></a></p>
/usr/local<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@cringe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cringe</span></a></span> Da sucht man wochenlang nach <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> IDEs und denkt es gäbe halt nur <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eclipse</span></a> - und Monate später stolpert man bei <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> einfach so über gleich zwei Vorschläge ...</p><p>Danke! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> rulez!</p><p>Auf der Shell nehme ich übrigens <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nano</span></a> oder <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microemacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroEmacs</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uemacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uEmacs</span></a>).</p>