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In Elif Batuman's 2017 novel The Idiot , about a naive Harvard student, her not-really-a-boyfriend Ivan, a math student, enthuses to her about Emacs. The book is set in 1995. I enjoyed the book. It got good reviews and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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> can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate. Because vim generally offers everything vi has. vi does have one advantage though. It's a lot lighter. vim is like 5.4MiB in size with 82 shared library dependencies, while vi[1] is like 260KiB with 2 library dependencies (libc and ncurses). [1] https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
For resource constrained systems, don't overlook busybox vi. https://k.japko.eu/busybox-vi-tutorial.html
There's an obscure Polish film from 2002, "Haker" (Hacker), obscure for many reasons and not in a good way; it's absolute drivel, not even accidentally funny in a MST3K, B movie kind of way - it's just really, really bad. In this gem there is a conversation about hacking into some system, and a character asks another a completely nonsensical semi jargon question, which goes like this: "Did you try Emacs via Sendmail?…
Nice. I've never seen any of these things except for Tron: Legacy; and I either didn't notice it was Emacs or immediately forgot if I did (you could also sorta take it to be tmux or something if you don't look closely enough to see the *eshell*). But this is the sort of thing I would generally never let my acquaintances hear the end of if I spotted :)