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Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Post by adestefan »

kroger wrote: post #4
unknownian wrote: post #3

Decently surprising list, at least for me. I think the Torvalds-Stallman relationship got more complicated in my head.

To be fair, Linus uses uemacs. He says "real" emacs is the tool of the devil ;-) https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LinusTorvalds/posts/iySKQGtkmtb

And the last line of the last commit to his uemacs repo is, "I really should just learn another editor, rather than continue to polish this turd."

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/diff/?i...

Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Post by meepmorp »

Watabou wrote: post #12
hk__2 wrote: post #6

Does anybody has the same list with vi?

Vim not vi. Or does anyone actually use vi?

> Or does anyone actually use vi?

Folks working on machines without vim who don't have root.

Source: an 18 month consulting gig several years ago.

Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Post by unimpressive »

rthomas6 wrote: post #15
jpdoctor wrote: post #8

> Richard Stallman – the creator of GNU Emacs, the founder of GNU Did anybody think he was secretly using vi in the closet?

I still think he is. He's too productive not to be.

It's probably a lot easier to learn emacs when you implement it.

Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Post by foobarbazqux »

rthomas6 wrote: post #15
jpdoctor wrote: post #8

> Richard Stallman – the creator of GNU Emacs, the founder of GNU Did anybody think he was secretly using vi in the closet?

I still think he is. He's too productive not to be.

RMS hasn't built anything in ages! (As far as I know.)

Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Post by AimHere »

jf wrote: post #2

Neal Stephenson is missing from this list: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson

Eben Moglen is also not there - sure he's now a Stallman collaborator and involved with the FSF, but he is 'just' a lawyer and/or law professor - yet in one of his earliest contacts with RMS, he apparently already claimed to use emacs every day.

Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

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Post by roryokane »

adestefan wrote: post #11
kroger wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Linus uses uemacs. He says "real" emacs is the tool of the devil ;-) https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LinusTorvalds/posts/iySKQGtkmtb

And the last line of the last commit to his uemacs repo is, "I really should just learn another editor, rather than continue to polish this turd." http://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/diff/?i...

You mean the last line of the commit message, at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/commit/.... Your link just shows the code diff.
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