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D Herring  
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 More options Jun 25, 10:11 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: D Herring <dherr...@at.tentpost.dot.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:11:59 -0400
Local: Thurs, Jun 25 2009 10:11 pm
Subject: Re: Death of a Troll
Skimming this classic Xah Lee stuff, the following caught my
attention, and I felt the need to provide some facts.

Xah Lee wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, Erik has contributed significantly to emacs.
> Quote:
...
> I have become a emacs lisp programer since 2006. I recall, in 2007 or
> so, out of boredom and curiosity, i tried to check what code Erik has
> put in emacs. My check is only casual and not in anyway thorough or as
> research, but i recall, all i can find on the surface is one obscure
> lisp package, i think it was related to date time format. (much of the
> hand-waving in this article will be solidified or corrected in the
> coming months, as i find more time to search my archive or check
> facts)

Erik authored roughly 176 emacs commits, most of which were small
bugfixes.  Not a prolific coder, Erik definitely cared about details,
often cleaning up after RMS himself.

# git-clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
# cd emacs
# git log | grep 'Erik Naggum' | wc -l
176

Later,
Daniel


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