Okay ... I haven't started many threads ... at all, let alone in any given forum.
I've experienced some influential disappointments over the decades of my love affair with computers in the main.
Among them are the non-portability of my favorite games and apps of one platform and/or OS to my latest computing machine.
Another is the Frankensteinian 500 lb gorilla grafted together from seemingly equal parts of Stupidity and Taste-in-one's-mouth, philistine aesthetics which found those with more money than sense purchasing IBM PCs and Macintoshs in far greater numbers than Commodore Amigas.
Regardless ... that WAS then (EG mid to late '80s), this is NOW!
Regardless of whether Windows 8 sucks out loud or even sucks at all, ITs Here Now ... it's exists as per an existence proof.
And it exists as just one of the OSes upon which GNU emacs runs upon, as is the case with Mozilla products, GIMP, Inkscape, and many other cross-platform apps.
Moreover, I'd venture that many if not MOST of us have or DO use it ... be it at home, at college, at work ... wherever.
So ... whether you Love, like, or merely use Winblows with a metaphorical gun held to your head ... this thread for those of us with the P play ethic capable of having FUN, even when starting out with a stacked deck.
When life hands us lemons -- when life gives us Winblows -- we cannot only crush them, add water and sugar; we can impose our `most logical of the MBTI types' will, wit, and willingness to play upon whatever we find in our environment towards transforming OUR world.
GNU emacs, BTW, operationally-IS more of an environment than whatever else it has been described as.
This environment can take the shape of a work shop for forging/constructing source code, a laboratory for experimenting, a language lab, a realm in which a game is played, etc.
For those sufficiently curious -- and at least tentatively willing to play along -- GNU emacs for Windows can be downloaded for FREE then installed like any other Windows app.
As I -- and I hope others -- will be providing magical incantations composed in emacs' own dialect of Lisp you'll need the 47MB version with all the lisp code IFF you want to play along.
I've used GNU emacs for Windows as both a native windows app and under cygwin both as emacs and emacs-nox so I'm up for accommodating the permutations of preferences of those who opt to play in this thread.
Rather than to mindlessly continue with techno-babble I'll close out this OP with a list some of what can be done by using GNU emacs atop Windows
- Scripting in several formats arguably better than DOS batch as well as launching DOS batch files
- Launch Windows apps
- File management
- command line shell interfacing
- composition and editing of vBulletin text
- composition or publishable texts -- EG web pages, papers, pamphlets, books, etc.
- games -- from text adventure to Tetris
- DIY -- create-your-OWN apps, utilities, games, and magical incantations
- Do-With-Others projects arguably BETTER than socializing in/at a MakerSpace
- Oh! I almost forgot; emacs can be used to compose and edit `source code' in ANY/EVERY programming language imaginable as well as natural language Text posted in vBullitin Groups such as this.
If you've been experimenting with GNU emacs for Windows don't hesitate to make requests to this thread.
Likewise, if you've got a killer demo please don't hesitate to flaunt it as it might inspire, amuse, or trigger some fun and games, productivity, and/or creativity ... or any combination thereof.
Let the games begin!!!
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