<![CDATA[Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs]]>Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/5ceb0f71-7629-4b7f-a59a-fb8c3b31c512/does-anyone-know-where-the-saying-emacs-is-a-lisp-compiler-cosplaying-as-a-text-editor-comes-from-emacsRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 08:45:18 GMTFri, 12 Jun 2026 08:35:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs on Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:01:46 GMT]]>@alanbuxey Ah, that does make more sense

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/fffluoride/statuses/116737029317442176https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/fffluoride/statuses/116737029317442176Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:01:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs on Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:49:48 GMT]]>@fffluoride I think that's been paraphrased, think the original was more like "Emacs is not a text editor, it's a Lisp interpreter that happens to edit text" and I think it was Richard Stallman who said it or framed the conversation into those words.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freeradical.zone/users/alanbuxey/statuses/116736982255500053https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freeradical.zone/users/alanbuxey/statuses/116736982255500053Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:49:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs on Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:01:51 GMT]]>@fffluoride the other part of that is that eMacs would be a great operating system if someone would write a decent text editor for it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bhaugland/statuses/116736793710371663https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bhaugland/statuses/116736793710371663Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:01:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs on Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:02:09 GMT]]>@fffluoride isn't that just an accurate description?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/discobeez/statuses/116736558980804979https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/discobeez/statuses/116736558980804979Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:02:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know where the saying: "Emacs is a lisp compiler cosplaying as a text editor" comes from?#emacs on Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:48:50 GMT]]>@fffluoride

That sound pretty much like some usenet folklore.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berlin.social/users/mina/statuses/116736506595953526https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berlin.social/users/mina/statuses/116736506595953526Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:48:50 GMT