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I'm pretty sure when the adage was created it was much closer to the truth. Now it's mostly a joke.

• throwawayboise 5y ago
  I started using emacs close to 30 years ago. As a text editor, it's pretty much the same as it ever was (the same goes for vi also).
  • kqr 5y ago
    It's not, though, because you now have a wealth of choices beyond the text editor that comes bundled with Emacs.
  • bananamerica 5y ago
    I mostly meant that what we expect from an OS changed a lot since then.