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Text editors are very opinionated. Emacs ships with tons of propaganda, including the complete text of rms' political manifesto; and Vim advocates for a charity in Uganda.

edit to add: It's the GNU Manifesto, which is an appendix in emacs' Info node.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

On Vim it's the startup splash screen:

    ~         Help poor children in Uganda!
    ~ type  :help iccf<Enter>       for information
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html

edit2: But that was an excellent choice of analogy, there was no need to delete it!


Thank you for pointing this out. Saved me a lot of citations. You are, by the way, absolutely correct.




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