Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m part of the ol’ ’emacs and make’ camp.

I’ll leave out the gory details. Either you know what I mean or I need to write way too long in order to explain. I discovered emacs when I was regularly working on multiple computing platforms and tired of having to reprogram my fingers each time I set out to do some editing on one or another. Installing an emacs on each allowed me to type the same way no matter where I sat. It didn’t take long for me to realize that if there’s anything at all to do with text, either emacs could already do it or one could teach it how. To this day, while it’s not true emacs, Lugaru‘s epsilon product runs on each machine I touch regularly. In fact, I’ll use it to turn these words, typed in Microsoft word, into words that WordPress will digest and present to your eyes nicely. It’s one of the precious few products for which I’ll buy the latest revision without thinking.

Anyway, when I hear emacs mentioned my ears perk up. This was definitely one of the odder ones.

Before the day before yesterday I never heard of “Emacs.Net”. Apparently, this is something going on inside Microsoft. What, I don’t know. I found a few spots of coverage in the press and, other than that, not much except for this blog entry. [link removed because it died]

Can anyone point me to more information? I’m curious, really curious. I mean, two things I don’t associate naturally are Microsoft and emacs. Go figure. But then, when you’re done,  please come back and tell me what you figure.

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