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krylon on Sept 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

The description of emacs never fails to make me smile: "emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish"

jefurii on Sept 10, 2016 [–]

This sentence made me want to try Emacs, all those many years ago.

throwanem on Sept 10, 2016 | [–]

Same here. When I finally did so, a decade later, I was pleased to discover that he'd been quite correct.

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