Comment by gumby
10 hours ago
I started using Emacs at the AI lab in 1978. It's still my main development tool and probably still the program I spend most of my time in today.
10 hours ago
I started using Emacs at the AI lab in 1978. It's still my main development tool and probably still the program I spend most of my time in today.
I named my cat Emacs, and he's only three years old. His sister's name is Pip.
And to answer the question I get a lot: no, it would be morally reprehensible to name a cat after an inferior editor such as "vi".
I often thought that a cat could be named /bin/cat. After all, many cats seem to enjoy being in boxes or bins!
You're likely aware of this, and certainly Don is, but for those unaware, PIP was the RSX-11 and CP/M equivalent to /bin/cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program
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And his brothers /bin/bzcat, /bin/pacat, /bin/netcat and /bin/sqfscat.
So your cat is about to get fired?
I can only imagine that Pip is an orange cat with typical orange cat characteristics like being crazy and breaking things occasionally.
You are correct: Nominative and chromatic determinism strikes again!
Emacs is a powerful, flexible, majestic, extensible silver tabby, so he also acts like his namesake: textual and functional determinism.
But does he have a gap buffer?
He is cute though.
you can get a dog and call it vi
I’m a cat person but I also am fond of dogs so I would consider that unkind.
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