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Emacs in 7 days:

Day 1. Find a VT100, attach it to a dec10 or vax. Learn teco$$ Day 3. Move up to vmacs. Day 4. Move vax 1500 miles. Find 9600 baud modem and dial in. Day 5. Install unix. Learn qed or ed to get a real taste of the usefulness of regular expressions in moving around a line editor Day 6. emacs -nw. Luxurious, isn't it! Read the emacs lisp user guide. Day 7. learn about m-.

Optional Day 8: Laugh at the eclipse losers.



> Learn teco$$

This is pronounced "learn teco altmode altmode".




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