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    [–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    i mean the mailing lists got it right, children are temporary emacs is forever

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm sure Emacs can reproduce.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yeah there’s an elisp file for that somewhere

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Wait, I just realized that that exists. It's called a quine. I trust that the Founding Fathers of Emacs were genius enough to make it a quine.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's why they're the Founding Fathers

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    The Founding Daddies, if you will.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Credited with writing the manuscripts of the GNU GPL, in its original, unamended form

    [–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce—even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of.

    It helps more people, too.

    LMAO

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's just a really weird thing to say

    [–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Was that one of the ones from the Megan era?

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

    In order to contribute a fix, you have to reproduce a bug.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, it's GNU Emacs.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    I assumed this meant reproducing the same functionality in a new editor instead of contributing to Emacs, the reality is so much better

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

    Sorry you had to go through having a baby...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    One of the rare absolute Ws for RMS

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    corwin does both...