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Emacs is a UI paradigm from the 1980s when character-addressable virtual TTYs were an exciting new innovation. Finally I could do something better than Edit and

Emacs is a UI paradigm from the 1980s when character-addressable virtual TTYs were an exciting new innovation. Finally I could do something better than Edit and Correct my Tape(1)! It is cruel to teach it to people new to computing when we've had better UI paradigms for 20+ years. (Before you flame; I'm an old emacs geek and still have the multi-kilobyte .emacs and damaged wrists to prove it. I even had a brief bit of open source fame with an emacs mode for HTML I wrote back in 1994. I've moved on.) 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)

cjauvin 7y ago
The mix of the old and the new seems to be quite the dominant paradigm these days: I'm mostly working on complex web development projects, and using Emacs to seamlessly navigate the sea of mostly text-based environments (JS, Python, PHP, bash, git, docker, multiple configuration environments, etc.) simply proves an invaluable asset. I've tried several times to "move on" (most recently to VSCode, which is really quite good), but I've always been gravitating back to Emacs.