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

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Post by jf » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:34 AM UTC

jf wrote: post #2

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

Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.

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

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Post by meepmorp » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:34 AM UTC

LukeShu wrote: post #30

meepmorp wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

They usually have one of the many clones of vi, installed as vi. Very few use actual vi, because for many years it was out-of-bounds because it used AT&T code from ed.

Yeah, I meant whatever generic vi-alike is installed instead of vim.

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

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Post by kabdib » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:38 AM UTC

Many of the "programmer heavies" at MS used Epsilon (an Emacs clone with quite good Windows integration). To be fair, a lot of them also used vim. Notably, few of them liked Visual Studio all that much.

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

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Post by kabdib » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:40 AM UTC

unknownian wrote: post #3

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

I'm happy to use Emacs. I'm also perfectly comfortable to personally and professionally dislike RMS.

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

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Post by yfefyf » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:45 AM UTC

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?

Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html

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

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Post by yfefyf » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:51 AM UTC

Many of them are famous Lisp programmers. Of course, Lisp grogrammers use Emacs.

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

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Post by lispython » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 1:56 AM UTC

jf wrote: post #2

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

Neal Stephenson is in the original list, but he is switched to Scrivener now. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-steph...

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

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Post by outworlder » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 2:03 AM UTC

kabdib wrote: post #33

Many of the "programmer heavies" at MS used Epsilon (an Emacs clone with quite good Windows integration). To be fair, a lot of them also used vim. Notably, few of them liked Visual Studio all that much.

Maybe that's why previous versions of Visual Studio came with Emacs keybindings by default?

Unfortunately, the latest VS is missing those.

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

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Post by outworlder » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 2:05 AM UTC

meepmorp wrote: post #16

Watabou wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, if you have SSH access, you could just edit those files with Emacs anyway. It has support for remote files (via TRAMP) out of the box.

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

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Post by _delirium » Wed, Jul 24, 2013, 2:24 AM UTC

ezy wrote: post #9

How are RMS & JWZ not famous for using emacs? I was expecting more people outside of the usual computer science & industry suspects.

Isn't JWZ mainly famous for Netscape (and later the DNA Lounge)? I didn't know he had anything to do with Emacs until I Googled to see what that was about.