23 Jul
2025
23 Jul
'25
12:57 a.m.
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(a)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