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.
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)
#72Sadly the amount of resource to learn emacs is pretty sparse while it is not for vim. Also emacs doesn't run properly on windows (at least not on an azerty keyboard)
Not one of your statements are true. In fact, everything you just said is 100% bullshit.
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#73Sadly the amount of resource to learn emacs is pretty sparse while it is not for vim. Also emacs doesn't run properly on windows (at least not on an azerty keyboard)
Hello, I run the blog mastering emacs - please let me know if there are any articles you want me to cover.
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#75Many of them are famous Lisp programmers. Of course, Lisp grogrammers use Emacs.
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#76Earlier 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.
I can access the box from other hosts with tramp. I believe that firewall rules will be changed to restrict many production SSH connections to be outbound, which might signal the end of that use case(?)
Other editors found on the production box: ed, xedit (X Consortium).
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#77Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#78Could someone explain what program Mark used in The Social Network movie when he was viewing the traffic for facemash.com? I've never seen that kind of clean logging before - at least not for php/apache. http://i0.wp.com/wenshanren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/w...
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#79I have MicroEMACS running on my HP200lx.
Disclaimer: I worked with Dave Conroy, the author of MicroEMACS for a short while.
Re: Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)
#80Earlier 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.