So a sysadmin friend and I decided that there just weren’t enough blogs about systems administration and linux out there. So we started another one: ihopesolution.com I’m sure it will develop its own voice, since we both have, um, firmly held opinions about how things should be done. And odd senses of humor. Since I tend to use emacs more for writing and org-mode rather than sysadminning, I’ll keep my emacs posts for my personal blog.
This is the story of a man and his favorite text editor. In 2001, I was a freshman in college, which meant the closest thing to highspeed internet that I had hitherto experienced. Which upped my time surfing the web. One of the delightful sites I lighted upon was Ftrain. One day, I dug through Ftrain’s archives and found Emacs Notepad. I was intrigued. Having exclusively used Word (and Notepad to edit HTML - ha!