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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 pyre »

outworlder wrote: post #39
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.

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.

Or just FUSE + sshfs, and any editor that you have locally. :-P

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

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Post by tzs »

fsck--off wrote: post #10

I find it strange that Daniel Weinreb, Guy Steele and Richard Stallman are on this list. Steele co-wrote ?macs with David Moon and John Kulp. Dan Weinreb was a beta tester on ?macs before Stallman joined the project, and he would later become the first one to write an Emacs in a lisp (EINE). Stallman, of course, created GNU Emacs. Putting them on a list with Assange and Zuckerberg is ridiculous.

It's a list of people who are (1) famous AND (2) Emacs users AND who would still be famous if they were not Emacs users. Weinreb, Steele, and Stallman all fit this.

Also, you make it sound like Stallman wasn't involved in Emacs from the start. In fact, Stallman and Steele wrote the FIRST Emacs. Everyone else you named came after.

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

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Post by saosebastiao »

yfefyf wrote: post #35
Watabou wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vim not vi. Or does anyone actually use vi?

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

Interesting, I never knew this. I guess I just assumed that all the famous lisp hackers automatically were emacs users.

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

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Post by omaranto »

jf wrote: post #31
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.

What does hacking ON Emacs lisp mean? Does it mean working on Emacs's lisp interpreter's source? Or on some project written in Emacs lisp?

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

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Post by gnufied »

foobarbazqux wrote: post #18
rthomas6 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

By "build" if you meant RMS stopped coding ages ago then you are wrong. He still contributes quite a lot to Emacs (https://github.com/mirrors/emacs/commits/master)

I am pretty sure I can dig up other projects he is still coding in. but RMS hasn't stopped coding.

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

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Post by shardling »

jf wrote: post #2

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

Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs.

(And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-...)

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

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Post by ryanwatkins »

_delirium wrote: post #40
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.

> Isn't JWZ mainly famous for Netscape (and later the DNA Lounge)?

Depends on when you were born.

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