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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.

  • sjolsen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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?