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pjmlptoday at 7:55 AM1 replyview on HN

> If you’re wondering why so many people would choose to use a fifty year old text editor with a notoriously steep initial learning curve, it’s because once you learn it, you can be ruthlessly efficient with your editing.

I have learned it back in Xenix heyday, and decided I was better off with Emacs.

Unfortunely not every server has Emacs pre-installed.

On my own devenv I would rather reach out to IDEs, that replicate as much as possible the Xerox PARC / Symbolics / TI experience.


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isollitoday at 8:06 AM

I, for one, am happy that every terminal I've ever used still supports Emacs shortcuts. Useful, for instance, to cut a whole line and paste it later on (ctrl+k, ctrl+y).

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