Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions, please?

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote at 19:55 this Friday (GMT):

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
writes:
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I can't wait for "emacs" to be released as its own distro.

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I already thought some Lisp cycles about using emacs' package manager
for own binaries too.  "Own" as in "managing my $HOME", but I never
tried to implement it.  It shouldn't have been too complicated as many
emacs "packages" already include C code that gets built at install
time.
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But on bad days I think GNU is all about EEE.  Embrace, extend,
extinguish.  Look at GCC: The GCCisms are so established now that even
C no longer is the universal portable assembler.  Far too much stuff
can no longer be built using other compilers.
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Writing my stuff in Org/Babel is not a locked in syndrome of the GCC
level.  Org documents stay text and if all else fails, a human can read
and understand that.
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I'm commuting between hating GNU and liking Org/Babel multipe times per
day.

 
 
At least they don't seem as bad as Ubuntu?