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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 00:59:33 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   I will never understand people that configure #GNU #Emacs into bits ... the defaults are great.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:15:19 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Weekend Editor

     @weekend_editor Yeah, but .. Emacs is Emacs. When you modify it to be VI Code .. it is no longer Emacs. Or when you tweak it into lordy knows what ..

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     Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:15:20 JST Weekend Editor

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     @amszmidt

     Some of us have been using various Emacsen for a long time. (Since about 1978, for me.)

     We're likely preserving old defaults that are too far down in finger memory to be worth changing.