From: jkonrath@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath)
Subject: the emacs commandments
Organization: No organization. No life. Just emacs.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:23:44 GMT

The Ten Commandments

  5: And Stallman called all Netland, and said to them, Hear, O
Netland,  the statues and judgements which I speak to your unix
machines , that ye may learn them, and modify them with elisp code.
2: The Lord our God made an extensible editor for us at MIT.  3: The
Lord made this editor with our fathers, but with us, even us who are
all of us here alive this day.  4: The Lord emailed to you terminal
to terminal in the tape mount in the midst of your fiery
installations. 5 (I stood between the Lord and you at the time, to
show you the word of the Lord, to show you the word of the Lord, for
ye were afraid by reason of the port, and went not up into the tape
mount) saying,
6: I am the Lord Thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Vi,
from the house of bondage and really bad editing modes.
7: Thou shalt have non other editors before me.
8: Thou shalt not make thee any graven image or any likeness of any
thing above or that is in the ftp archives beneath, or that is on
magtape beneath the earth (without first consulting a copy of the GNU
software copyleft agreement) 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto
them, nor serve them: For I the Lord Thy God am a jealous god,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers of early unix machines unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 and showing
mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
11 thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy extensible editor in
vein: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh hours to
compuse lists of what emacs 'really' stands for.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath
commandeth thee.  13 Six days thou shalt code, and do all the work 14
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy editor of choice:
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy programmers, nor thy
consultants , nor thy systems analysts, nor thy hardware technicians,
nor thine professors and students, nor thine lowly computer salsemen,
nor thy stranger that is within my gates; that thy manservant and thy
maidservant may rest as well as thou 15 and remember that tho wast a
servant in the land of internet, and that the lord thy emacs brought
the out thence through a mighty full-screen editor with lisp
extensibility: therefore the Lord thy god commanded thee to keep the
sabbath day, and use it to play nettrek or just sleep a lot.
16 Honor thy kernel and filesystem, as the lord thy emacs commanded
thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it wil go well with
thee, in the land which the lord thy God giveth thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill -9
18 neither shall thou commit adultery without posting to alt.sex
19 neither shall thou steal elisp code: thou shall obey the GNU
software agreement.
20 neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor's elisp
code.
21 neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's editor, neither shall thou
covet thy neighbor's .emacs file, his .login or his window manager, or
his elisp code, or anything that is thy neigbors.

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Jon Konrath | Jkonrath@indiana.edu | one world. one sig.