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Live stream: Emacs and the Unix philosophy
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This was a live stream that got recorded. It started on 2021-09-26 13:00 +0300 and lasted for about two hours. I talked about the persistent question of how Emacs conforms with the Unix philosophy, what it means for a set of views to constitute a philosophy, whether those tenets are generalisable, and what lessons may be learnt from them for our day-to-day computing. After the presentation was concluded, I joined the live chat for further comments on a variety of issues. The text of my talk is copied below. It is written in Org notation: #+TITLE: Live: Emacs and the Unix philosophy #+AUTHOR: Protesilaos Stavrou (https://protesilaos.com) #+DATE: 2021-09-26 * How I approach the Emacs VS Unix problématique Hello everyone! My name is Protesilaos, also known as "Prot". In this live stream, which is being recorded as well, I will talk to you about the Unix philosophy and how Emacs conforms with it while addressing its main usability flaw. The show notes are available on my website: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2021-09-22-live-stream-emacs-unix/ My approach to today's topic is informed by my experience as someone who had used a combination of a tilling window manager, Tmux, Vim, variou…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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