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It probably was not posted because it’s untrue. No point in posting inaccuracies. Emacs is a great text editor.

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• smitty1e 4y ago
  Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding. Sure, the gag "fails", but it makes the point of the general usability of the infamous Lisp-machine-in-editor-drag.
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  • teknico 4y ago
    > Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding. That’s deep. Never heard it before, it does make sense. Thanks.
    • smitty1e 4y ago
      Relatively certain that it's original with me. Worth what you paid for it. ;-)
• _yb2s 4y ago
  "decent" or "great" are personal emotional responses, they cannot be true or false
  • m463 4y ago
    (setq decent t) (setq great nil)
• js8 4y ago
  As an Emacs user, I have always hated that joke. It's not funny, because, as you said, it is untrue. Emacs is not only a great editor, but it's also a terrible operating system, lacking multitasking and error recovery in particular (although it's getting better).
• trabant00 4y ago
  It's a joke, it doesn't need to be true, only to have a kernel of truth like all good jokes. And as a recent Emacs convert after years of vim I must say that kernel is there. The breadth and scope of Emacs is extreme. Talking seriously it's obviously not an OS, but it's not an editor either. It's a framework for people to build their editors on. While vim for example is a great editor right out of the box and even the best evil integrations are not 100% up there with it.