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When I started using Emacs about 25 years ago and 20 years ago started using it professionally, _everybody_ used it to program on Linux - yes, I have had two co
by ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
When I started using Emacs about 25 years ago and 20 years ago started using it professionally, _everybody_ used it to program on Linux - yes, I have had two colleagues who used Vim and Kdevelop, but apart from these two goofballs, everybody used Emacs (for C++). I even paid for Xrefactory https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XreFactory https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XreFactory 20 years ago.
Now? There is one left (yes, I switched to VS Code :() who still uses Emacs and there are even more Vim users (not admins!).
And whenever I read something about Emacs online it's mostly Magit (I don't get that, I either use the CLI or a real GUI frontend) or Org-Mode (not for me either).
- coldtea 3y ago>20 years ago started using it professionally, _everybody_ used it to program on Linux For C++ maybe. For C most used Vim
- NoGravitas 3y agoThough the standard text editor was, and still is, ed.
- bee_rider 3y agoI think Emacs users want led the best IDE-like experience they could get in the terminal, while Vim users wanted Vim. As a result Emacs is always fighting a much tougher fight. (FWIW I like Vim; this isn’t an example of an Emacs fan touting their advanced ide-like editor).
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