Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs
by usr1106 on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:08PM
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> I've worked in many startups in the US and almost everyone uses emacs.
Others claim the opposite. Maybe the contradiction is explained by the hiring culture. Startups with emacs users hire more emacs users. Not that they would make emacs usage an explicit criterion or even ask such interview question. But probably there are some properties over-represented in 4% (or whatever the figure is) of programmers that are emacs users.
Disclaimer: Part-time emacs user since 1986 or so, full-time emacs user since 1989. Should spend some time to learn the newer features / customize it in a more compatible way with the rest of my software. I am lazy to make "another" editor as Stallman puts it even if I like Lisp hacking occasionally, but I would happily switch to a modernized configuration if it were available upstream.
Others claim the opposite. Maybe the contradiction is explained by the hiring culture. Startups with emacs users hire more emacs users. Not that they would make emacs usage an explicit criterion or even ask such interview question. But probably there are some properties over-represented in 4% (or whatever the figure is) of programmers that are emacs users.
Disclaimer: Part-time emacs user since 1986 or so, full-time emacs user since 1989. Should spend some time to learn the newer features / customize it in a more compatible way with the rest of my software. I am lazy to make "another" editor as Stallman puts it even if I like Lisp hacking occasionally, but I would happily switch to a modernized configuration if it were available upstream.