Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Michel Foucault had this to say to contemporary critics of Hegel:

"We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us."

It seems any investigation of prior art regarding knowledge base systems comes back to Emacs, where the solution to all problems of note taking and memory retention is patiently waiting for everyone to finally learn Elisp. But Emacs is for dinosaurs, we repeat for the 100th time ...




I have come to the point where I don't think 100% of what shows up in modern editors is a re-inventing the wheel. Multiple cursors, for one, was actually a decent replacement for short-and-not-too-many-lines macros. Roam seems ok if used with discipline.

All the new things do however prove the Emacs model at least partially right: most things can become well integrated into Emacs. Multiple cursors and editable fired (file manager) buffers? Worked from day one!




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: