As a once and sometimes avid Emacs user, I don’t want to relate to this as hard as I do.
FWIW: I tried to set this posts language to elisp but it wasn’t an option.
“It’s all LISP-based. And it’s astonishingly slow.”
“People never quit emacs. They just die at some point”
My two favorite Emacs jokes:
- What does EMACS stand for? Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
- Emacs is a great operating system; it only lacks a decent text editor.
Can you imagine a world where a program originally designed to manipulate documents was extended through a highly dynamic, kind of half-baked interpreted language to the point of underpinning almost every application you interact with on a daily basis and using an order of magnitude or so more resources than are actually necessary?
HA! Amazing. Two editor-related things I always show people on tours of our museum are the meta key on a Symbolics keyboard, and the arrow keys on an ADM3 terminal. (I wrote this comment in vi.)
Let’s see the VIM one.
