[TUHS] Not really Emacs wars (was: foreground/background vs. Windowing)

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
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> [Somewhat off-topic for TUHS; please follow up at COFF]
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> On Saturday, 19 July 2025 at 17:37:34 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
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> > Also, there are no GUI emacs versions I like..
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> You have me curious.  How many do you know?  And what don't you like
> about them, when you clearly use Emacs?

Most of the emacs GUI adaptations assume that it's THE instance of the
editor. With multiple terminals, I can have multiple editors with
different contexts. With the GUI, it all gets dumped together.

It may just be an odd quirk of when I grew up and always having job
control and just always using that all the way back to the 4.2BSD Vax
11/750 days.

Warner


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