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		mathattack on July 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Emacs changed my life It's hard to go bad on this article given the source, no? I find it more interesting for insight into Matz than anything about emacs. The idea that his text editor got him excited about programming is pretty powerful. Yes it could have been written in a 1 page memo, but who cares?

hannibal5 on July 24, 2013 [–]

Calling emacs text editor is huge understatement.

mathattack on July 24, 2013 | [–]

I meant it with some irony. As in, "What appears to be a mere text editor..."

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