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Bj=F6rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:

> Yes I know I could learn Emacs-Lisp and rewire the entire user
> interface. I prefer to use an editor that I don't have to rewire,

What editor is that?

Does it work on every host OS you have to use?

> and program something more interesting in Ada instead.

I learned how to rewire Emacs 20 years ago, and have been benefiting
from that knowledge ever since. Time spent learning good tools is
amortized over many projects.=20

Emacs gives me more time to work on interesting Ada projects!

--=20
-- Stephe