Emacs is a text editor with a comprehensive set of features that is
particularly popular with programmers and other technical computer
users. The original Emacs was written in 1976 by Richard Stallman, as
a set of Editor MACroS for the TECO editor. It has evolved from its
dumb terminal origins into something resembling a full blown word
processor sporting a complete graphical user interface. A large
number of extensions are available which can turn Emacs into anything
from a web browser to a tool for writing and compiling computer
programs.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
Today's selected anniversaries:
1830 Belgian Revolution: A provisional government in Brussels
declared the creation of the independent and neutral state
of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the
Netherlands.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution)
1910 Manuel II, the last King of Portugal, fled to Great Britain
when a revolution erupted in Lisbon and his palace was
shelled. A republic was proclaimed the next day.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_II_of_Portugal)
1957 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite
to orbit the Earth, was launched at 19:12 UTC by a R-7
rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1)
1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis: Tanks bombarded the White
House in Moscow, a government building that housed the
Russian parliament, where demonstrators against President
Boris Yeltsin rallied outside.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_constitutional_crisis_of_1993)
Wikiquote of the day:
"Given the choice between two theories, take the one which is
funnier." ~ "Blore's Razor" (Author unknown)