Steve Yegge posted yesterday a book in his blog, XEmacs is Dead. Long Live XEmacs! Ok, it’s not a book - but looks like -, it’s a very interesting article and we share many ideas.

I don’t know how to define it right now, but long time ago, Emacs was my favorite software, I used it for almost everything besides editing files, mail, news, shell, scripting, web browser, irc, calendar, contacts, etc. I even started writing a book about it five years ago, I wanted to finish it a while back, but I got an access denied from my editor, of course.

It doesn’t interests people anymore, Emacs has unbelievable potential, we’re late, very late, but nothing blocks us from getting back in shape, a lot of work has to be done, barriers to be broken, but people need to be creative and reinvent it.

I use it everyday of my life, it’s my favorite editor and I really hope someone do something, but honestly, Emacs is getting old, lazy and fat.

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