Protesilaos on Emacs

Ever since I stumbled upon Prot's videos on Youtube on Emacs I could not help but admire his clarity of thought and thoroughness of his approach.

It wasn't an exception this time around. But what prompted me to jot a note about it is that I found my feelings about Emacs be put in writing so accurately.

Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs

I writing about Protesilaos' post Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs.

Here are some quotes that speak to me the most:

"Integrated computing in practice"

When you work with many applications that do not play nicely together, you cannot do something that the developers have not envisaged.

"Integration gives you emergent properties"

You define something for one context you have in mind and, eventually, it can be used in another context that initially you had not even thought of.

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The integrated computing environment of Emacs is more than the sum of its parts.

Unix Shell

The last time I felt a revelation like this was when I learned about the shell while following Gentoo installation handbook some odd 20 years ago.