[TUHS] Editors (was: Re: End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference))

[Jeff Johnson]

I’ll throw in that Lugaru Software (which as been around forever) still maintains their venerable Epsilon editor - which is a great product - and although it is roughly considered to be an “Emacs” by key bindings and default behaviors, underneath it’s all in the ELL language instead of Lisp.  And EEL is essentially C. 

If you prefer C to Lisp (oh, the cries and gnashing of teeth!) like many people do, it’s a very interesting product.

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Jeffrey H. Johnson
trnsz at pobox.com

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025, at 3:59 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> On the milder topic of editor preferences, I'm a vi(m) user but employ
> Emacs bindings in readline applications and maintained my own fork of mg
> (microemacs) for a while, to see how the other half lived.  I discovered
> that a much bigger chunk of Emacs advocacy is predicated on its
> "finger-feel"[1] and some other built-in features than upon Lisp
> scriptability.