Emacs

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sceptreofjudah

rah

gvwilson

dfan

fdrake

tlesher

zurich

liza

ndw

jtauber

whosaysni

nnrcschmdt

rrainey

thraxil

davidpaccoud

jbeigel

ubernostrum

pydanny

mgrbyte

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nsmgr8

mfandreas

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adamv

xxv

PaulM

madewulf

eykd

joalcorn

milouse

Kanru

d3f3nd3r

nathans

carljm

sbastn

justinlilly

paulsmith

thaostra

cagedmantis

DataShed

NX172

mnilsson

rizumu

nrb

davisagli

collypops

gridaphobe

theanalyst

greyfade

sceptreofjudah - 1 years

rah - 27 years

gvwilson - 40 years

dfan - 38 years

fdrake - 34 years

tlesher - 34 years

zurich - 14 years

liza - 33 years

ndw - 33 years

jtauber - 32 years

whosaysni - 32 years

nnrcschmdt - 11 years

rrainey - 31 years

thraxil - 29 years

davidpaccoud - 2 years

jbeigel - 27 years

ubernostrum - 26 years

pydanny - 26 years

mgrbyte - 26 years

Josh - 25 years

nsmgr8 - 1 years

mfandreas - 25 years

Ben - 25 years

adamv - 3 years

xxv - 24 years

PaulM - 22 years

madewulf - 22 years

eykd - 22 years

joalcorn - 3 years

milouse - 21 years

Kanru - 18 years

d3f3nd3r - 18 years

nathans - 17 years

carljm - 17 years

sbastn - 17 years

justinlilly - 17 years

paulsmith - 16 years

thaostra - 1 years

cagedmantis - 16 years

DataShed - 16 years

NX172 - 16 years

mnilsson - 16 years

rizumu - 16 years

nrb - 16 years

davisagli - 15 years

collypops - 1 years

gridaphobe - 14 years

theanalyst - 13 years

greyfade - 10 years

rah

1984–2010

I used EMACS (TECO on Chip&/orDale, DEC TOPS-20 machines) in my first comp sci course at University of Chicago in Winter Quarter 1984. Really. Also used Gosling's EMACS on a Pyramid to pretty much automate my third-shift production expeditor's job away at the UofC computation center from late 1984-86. While smoking baseball-bat cigars. And eating pizza for breakfast. :-) I've got a couple of EMACsen on my MBP, but I don't use 'em, 'cause I don't code. (Never could, really...)

sceptreofjudah

1984

I used EMACS when I went to work for FMC in 1984. I didn't like it and switched back to Vi. I was doing image processing for vision systems on autonomous vehicle projects.

gvwilson

1985–

uemacs on a Vax...

dfan

1987–

I don't understand, why is there more than one entry under "Text Editors"?

fdrake

1991–

My first Unix text editor, and still what I turn to. And live in.

tlesher

1991–

Someone at University suggested Emacs as a "more powerful but slower alternative to vi".

liza

1992–

Starting with Rmail and now everything.

ndw

1992–

You can have my emacs when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

zurich

1992–2005

jtauber

1993–

I don't use it much on OS X but Emacs was my main editor when I used Windows and various Unices.

whosaysni

1993–

I hate it but I'm bound to it.

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1997–1998

Used in Computer Science class but never learned its power features.

jbeigel

1998–

ubernostrum

1999–

pydanny

1999–

I use it when I must.

mgrbyte

1999–

I can't even imagine what I'd do without it

mfandreas

2000–

editor of choice

Josh

2000–

THE ONE

nsmgr8

2000

Ben

2000–

On and off; using it for lisp now

adamv

2001–2003

xxv

2001–

I got into it in part due to nxml-mode.

madewulf

2003–

The editor I used for C programming and writing my thesis

PaulM

2003–

In the beginning, God said "M-x let-there-be-light"

eykd

2003–

joalcorn

2004–2006

milouse

2004–

And it makes my coffee!

d3f3nd3r

2007–

Kanru

2007–

justinlilly

2008–

Was originally going to write a blog post about why Emacs sucked and why Vim was awesome and realized that its not that bad. Now I use it every day.

nathans

2008–

Current editor - prefer semantic bindings to positional bindings.

sbastn

2008–

The legend, the classic, the best. All my computers have the caps lock key remapped to the control key because of it. Still learning new tricks. Started using it for projects on the side. I have it now working full time at work!

carljm

2008–

paulsmith

2009–

A convert from vim. In retrospect, not sure why I resisted trying it for so long. It has improved my development skills in concrete ways in a short period of time.

thaostra

2009

Tried it. Didn't like it.

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Messed with emacs a little bit out of curiosity, and did a Lisp programming class with elisp. Still use it now and again.

rizumu

2009–

After years of back and forth, wanting to use emacs, I've finally made it my primary editor. Forcing myself over the learning curve was the best decision ever.

davisagli

2010–

Trying to finally learn it, because I know I won't regret it.

collypops

2010

No. I love my mouse too much to persevere. I gave it a shot for a month.

gridaphobe

2011–

theanalyst

2012–

Emacs has made me a better programmer, started out learning emacs lisp, and then into functional programming, compilers etc.

greyfade