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Neal Stephenson is missing from this list: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson

by jf 13y ago

vilhelm_s 13y ago
And Vernor Vinge (http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...).
AimHere 13y ago
Eben Moglen is also not there - sure he's now a Stallman collaborator and involved with the FSF, but he is 'just' a lawyer and/or law professor - yet in one of his earliest contacts with RMS, he apparently already claimed to use emacs every day.
jf 13y ago
Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.
- omaranto 13y ago
  What does hacking ON Emacs lisp mean? Does it mean working on Emacs's lisp interpreter's source? Or on some project written in Emacs lisp?
  - pvdm 13y ago
    For me it means writing an .el extension.
    - jf 13y ago
      Yes. After the event was over, I asked him what he had been working on, it was some code to identify what sort of buffer he had just opened (secure v. insecure, I don't remember the details)
    - omaranto 13y ago
      I would call that hacking in Elisp, not on Elisp, which is why I asked.
- stettix 13y ago
  Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!
lispython 13y ago
Neal Stephenson is in the original list, but he is switched to Scrivener now. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-stephenson-reamde-video-games/2/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-steph...
parennoob 13y ago
Josh Nimoy, because he uses emacs and got it into Tron http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178
- csmatt 13y ago
  Somehow missed that. I love how many geekster eggs were in that movie!
shardling 13y ago
Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs. (And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-of-Freedom-Steven-Brust.pdf http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-...)
- justin66 13y ago
  Jack Chalker sited Framemaker and Borland Sprint as favorites because of their EMACS-like features: http://web.archive.org/web/19990819062835/http://jackchalker.com/jlc-home.htm http://web.archive.org/web/19990819062835/http://jackchalker... Sprint's a real member of the EMACS family tree but I don't know about Framemaker.
- stevekemp 13y ago
  Yes I saw in the foreword/afterword in one of his recent books a credit for somebody helping him with Emacs Macros. I was disappointed we didn't know what kind of macros they were.
zach 13y ago
Also, Ken Jennings writes his weekly trivia challenge in Emacs: http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12615#p12615 http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12... That's maybe not the ideal endorsement, though. Ken is a great guy, but having the trivia champion of the world saying he is an enthusiastic Emacs user... well, it doesn't improve Emacs' reputation as an editor for lovers of the esoteric.

Neal Stephenson is missing from this list: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson

by jf 13y ago

Neal Stephenson is missing from this list: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson

vilhelm_s 13y ago

And Vernor Vinge (http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...).

AimHere 13y ago

Eben Moglen is also not there - sure he's now a Stallman collaborator and involved with the FSF, but he is 'just' a lawyer and/or law professor - yet in one of his earliest contacts with RMS, he apparently already claimed to use emacs every day.

jf 13y ago

Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.

omaranto 13y ago
What does hacking ON Emacs lisp mean? Does it mean working on Emacs's lisp interpreter's source? Or on some project written in Emacs lisp?
- pvdm 13y ago
  For me it means writing an .el extension.
  - jf 13y ago
    Yes. After the event was over, I asked him what he had been working on, it was some code to identify what sort of buffer he had just opened (secure v. insecure, I don't remember the details)
  - omaranto 13y ago
    I would call that hacking in Elisp, not on Elisp, which is why I asked.
stettix 13y ago
Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!

lispython 13y ago

Neal Stephenson is in the original list, but he is switched to Scrivener now. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-stephenson-reamde-video-games/2/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-steph...

parennoob 13y ago

Josh Nimoy, because he uses emacs and got it into Tron http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178 http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

csmatt 13y ago
Somehow missed that. I love how many geekster eggs were in that movie!

shardling 13y ago

Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs. (And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-of-Freedom-Steven-Brust.pdf http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-...)

justin66 13y ago
Jack Chalker sited Framemaker and Borland Sprint as favorites because of their EMACS-like features: http://web.archive.org/web/19990819062835/http://jackchalker.com/jlc-home.htm http://web.archive.org/web/19990819062835/http://jackchalker... Sprint's a real member of the EMACS family tree but I don't know about Framemaker.
stevekemp 13y ago
Yes I saw in the foreword/afterword in one of his recent books a credit for somebody helping him with Emacs Macros. I was disappointed we didn't know what kind of macros they were.

zach 13y ago

Also, Ken Jennings writes his weekly trivia challenge in Emacs: http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12615#p12615 http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12... That's maybe not the ideal endorsement, though. Ken is a great guy, but having the trivia champion of the world saying he is an enthusiastic Emacs user... well, it doesn't improve Emacs' reputation as an editor for lovers of the esoteric.