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> but that's just not good enough. Did the people who put this package > together not test it? Emacs is written by people who think like Larry Niven's 'Pak'. Or given the fact that Niven knew some of the people involved, it's possibly more accurate to say the Pak are probably inspired the people who wrote Emacs. It's like a perpetual prototype: nothing is ever one skerrick more polished, complete, or debugged than it has to be for someone who is a skilled programmer with detailed knowledge of its innards to use it. There's a lot of this going around, even among the ones who seem to be trying to do something different. I still haven't figured out how you're really supposed to set the Gnome login program up to select different window managers, or the way you're really supposed to add a program to the Gnome desktop menu. I've done both, but I ended up doing it completely different ways each time and neither was really what you'd call convenient.
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