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wow, i wish this tool had been around in the 90s!

i was lucky enough to have had a shell account on the GNU gnu.ai.mit.edu servers back in the 90s and found elisp inspiration from poking around in the $HOMEs of GNU hackers/legends like roland mcgrath and noah friedman and of course rms. i nearly wrote a book back about emacs then with a uni lecturer but he resigned/was fired in some kind of scandal and well, that was that.

amazingly i still have that shell account, though its of course moved a few times and has been for a while a gnu.org box.

i learned a lot about bash and how to structure things properly from ~roland's init scripts.

hah! just ssh'd in to fencepost.gnu.org and all his init scripts are still there[1]!

[1] https://i.imgur.com/a5gp5kl.png



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