Apps with other functions, was: Re: Is there a way to post without a fee to newsgroups?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>>> How about that editor (or rater, originally a set of macros for an
>>>> editor) that implements a LISP interpreter, which can be an e-mail
>>>> client, news reader, ELIZA, ftp client, play tetris, be an IDE, etc,
>>>> etc...
>>>>
>>>> Somewhat older that Netscape.  Caused more flamewars, too.  (Hope I'm
>>>> not starting one here!!!)
>>>   Oooh, yeah...
>>>   That block of code would be a great OS if it had a decent text editor.
>>
>> Am I on crack, or do I indeed remember someone having ported vi to emacs?
> 
>   Emacs has had several vi emulation modes for a very long time.  At 
> least two of those are part of the standard distribution.

That's not what I meant.  Someone had rewritten a basic vi in LISP and 
ran it on emacs.

It was perverse.

Peace...  Sridhar