Ask HN: Why do you still use Emacs/Vim?

Re:Ask HN: Why do you still use Emacs/Vim? by bradknowles on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:50AM (#18500889)

I’ve been using vi since about 1985. At the time, emacs was the program that would crash our PDP 11/70 if more than one copy was running anywhere on it. And all undergrads in the EE/CS department shared that one machine.

So, the only people who got to run emacs were the sysadmins, and they were really good about warning everyone else away from it.

It also helped that emacs is a great OS from the 1970s, and the only thing it lacks is a decent text editor. ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you still use Emacs/Vim? by ashton314 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:19PM (#18504263)

> the only thing it lacks is a decent text editor

That’s a funny joke. It’s made funnier by the fact that Emacs can emulate Vim. (“Viper” and “Evil” modes.)

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