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As a once and sometimes avid Emacs user, I don’t want to relate to this as hard as I do.

FWIW: I tried to set this posts language to elisp but it wasn’t an option.

  • sjolsen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    My two favorite Emacs jokes:

    • What does EMACS stand for? Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
    • Emacs is a great operating system; it only lacks a decent text editor.

    Can you imagine a world where a program originally designed to manipulate documents was extended through a highly dynamic, kind of half-baked interpreted language to the point of underpinning almost every application you interact with on a daily basis and using an order of magnitude or so more resources than are actually necessary?

  • davefischer@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    HA! Amazing. Two editor-related things I always show people on tours of our museum are the meta key on a Symbolics keyboard, and the arrow keys on an ADM3 terminal. (I wrote this comment in vi.)

  • Dougie@lemmy.dougiverse.ioEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I think this is his best one yet 😅

    I was heavily into Emacs for the last few years, but now I’m back to Vim (Neovim this time)

    • projectazar@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve also switched to Neovim. It was just easier to customize and I really didn’t need all the extra operating system features built into Emacs.

      • Dougie@lemmy.dougiverse.ioEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s why I switched too.

        I also wanted to use more of the coreutils in my workflow to make me a better engineer since they’re present on every system while my emacs config is not.