The C source for Emacs buffer: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/buffer...
Why Emacs has buffers
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Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#12The C source for Emacs buffer: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/buffer...
Pretty neat for a piece of software that's been around for 37 years.
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#13For those (like me) being stuck on "skeuomorphic" in the second sentence: > A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic…
So, onomatopoeia for the UI?
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#14A pretty bad article to be honest, just creating confusion. Emacs buffers are not the reason why functions like forward-paragraph exists. That’s just normal abstraction (in programming).
> Emacs buffers are not the reason why functions like forward-paragraph exists.
A buffer is essentially a tuple
(contents, point, mark, definition of a "paragraph", ...)
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#15For those (like me) being stuck on "skeuomorphic" in the second sentence: > A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic…
So, onomatopoeia for the UI?
Sortof?
I think keyboards on smartphones are an example: they tend to resemble regular, physical desktop keyboards, rather than just a grid of letters. It seems like that's the main reason for the 'A' to be offset from the 'Q'. (Whereas, say, a Blackberry's keyboard was a grid of keys; and entering the symbol mode of smartphone keyboards is also a grid).
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#16For those (like me) being stuck on "skeuomorphic" in the second sentence: > A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic…
Skeuomorphic was quite the buzzword back near the dawn of the iPhone
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#17For those (like me) being stuck on "skeuomorphic" in the second sentence: > A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic…
If I may, I'd like to mention a text editor that I am making as an example of relevant skeuomorphism. It's called Tentacle Typer. It makes regular ol' .txt files in mostly the traditional way, but you write text documents as an eldritch tentacle monster with a magic mechanical typewriter inside a steampunk sandbox. https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1469737611824713739
As a person who collects text editors:
Wow. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#18For those (like me) being stuck on "skeuomorphic" in the second sentence: > A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic…
If I may, I'd like to mention a text editor that I am making as an example of relevant skeuomorphism. It's called Tentacle Typer. It makes regular ol' .txt files in mostly the traditional way, but you write text documents as an eldritch tentacle monster with a magic mechanical typewriter inside a steampunk sandbox. https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1469737611824713739
That some serious... hem... serious... well, I'm not sure of what I've seen but that's really serious ! :-)
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#19I thought they were called buffers because they buffed and polished your text.
Re: Why Emacs has buffers
#20A pretty bad article to be honest, just creating confusion. Emacs buffers are not the reason why functions like forward-paragraph exists. That’s just normal abstraction (in programming).
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