[COFF] editor wars

Adam Thornton athornton at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 10:57:24 AEST 2025


I am definitely not one of the brighter people on this list, but I am an
Emacs user.

The reason why is very simple.

I was introduced to Unix systems the summer I was 17, when I was working in
a physics lab at UT Austin.  There were computers there I needed to use.
One of the other people in the lab, when I was like, "how do I write a
program?" was like, "OK, type 'emacs' and hit return, then type Ctrl-h then
t".

So I did.

Decades later, here I still am.

Adam

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025, Paul Winalski wrote:
>
> > I like the joke about EMACS being an acronym for
> Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift.
>
> Mine, I think (and I hadn't seen it before).
>
> -- Dave
>
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