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Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by shardling on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @12:03AM (#6094457)
Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs.

(And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-...)

Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by justin66 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @02:02AM (#6094720)
Jack Chalker sited Framemaker and Borland Sprint as favorites because of their EMACS-like features: http://web.archive.org/web/19990819062835/http://jackchalker...

Sprint's a real member of the EMACS family tree but I don't know about Framemaker.

Re:Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) by stevekemp on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @06:53AM (#6095388)
Yes I saw in the foreword/afterword in one of his recent books a credit for somebody helping him with Emacs Macros.

I was disappointed we didn't know what kind of macros they were.