Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> You know, Emacs users and us, the others, represent different
>> species. I'm certain that a scientific study would show that these
>> don't even interbreed. Each Emacs user must have been abducted by
>> aliens in flying saucers... (:-))
>
> OK, maybe that's the crux of the problem.  Emacs users can browse, do
> not need crutches, and do not want anything to get in the way :)
>
> I may be an extreme example of this.  I use emacs fullscreen, with no
> menu bar and no toolbar.  I don't need, use or want a "desktop
> environment".  My window manager is ratpoison[1].  I use emacs as a
> desktop calculator, telephone directory and organizer; for news and
> email, file browsing, and of course programming.

Just for the record, me too, except I keep a real window manager in the
background, for other tools (people insist on sending me non-open-source
docs, and Emacs just doesn't do web very well). 

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