Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)

Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by jf on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @09:34PM (#6094014)

Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.

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Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by stettix on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @09:47AM (#6096121)

Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!

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Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by omaranto on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:31PM (#6094357)

What does hacking ON Emacs lisp mean? Does it mean working on Emacs's lisp interpreter's source? Or on some project written in Emacs lisp?

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Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by pvdm on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:22AM (#6094881)

For me it means writing an .el extension.

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Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by jf on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:49AM (#6094963)

Yes. After the event was over, I asked him what he had been working on, it was some code to identify what sort of buffer he had just opened (secure v. insecure, I don't remember the details)

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Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by omaranto on Monday July 29, 2013 @01:05AM (#6119453)

I would call that hacking in Elisp, not on Elisp, which is why I asked.

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