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n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

Why do some programmers love emacs so much

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Why do some programmers love emacs so much

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n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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    It’s a text editor you customise by programming it. Why do you think that’s appealing?

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      I think you missed the joke.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac

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        This stupid antique computer is the reason my iOS keyboard autocorrects “emacs” to “eMacs”

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          there’s something so funny about them both being apple products, but the offending party getting the disrespect of “this stupid antique computer”

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        Looks like a US model. Never heard of it.

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          we had them in school in europe in like 2003.

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            Ah, school, 2003, that explains a lot.

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              i mean they came out in 2002 and were for schools, so yes.

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                I definitely wasn’t in school in 2002.

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      I think we found the guy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

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