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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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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.

Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!

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Sadly 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.

Well those are my problems, I've been trying to get into Emacs for a pretty long time and have no gave up to use Sublime. But if I'm in a terminal I'll use Emacs, inefficiently but this is my go to.

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

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Sadly 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.

how to run emacs with an azerty keyboard on windows would be one :)

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

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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.

Or what you've read. I first met Zawinski through Coders at Work and he immediately became my hero. Working on Lucid/XEmacs was but one reason why.

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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 encounter vi on a production Solaris 10 box at my current consulting gig.

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).

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Could 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)

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Could 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...

I wonder what Linux distribution he used.

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

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Even though Linus is on this list, it is for using MicroEMACS, which is really not very close to Emacs. Same keybindings, yes, but significantly smaller editor. Certainly less powerful than most any version of VI.

I 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)

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> 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.

Well, sure, but then I'd just use vim like a sane person.
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