178 engineers on Hacker News describe using Emacs first-hand: 68 endorse it, 6 regret it, 22 are mixed.
“I fully switched from vi to emacs in 1992 and been using it heavily every day since then. So good.”
endorse · personal · 34 yr · jjav · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love emacs and have been using it daily for about 5 years now.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · lukehandcool · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have yet to find a reason to switch away from emacs as my primary work flow editor. I've been using it for at least 30 years now.”
endorse · production · 30 yr · teunispeters · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Emacs for more than 30 years now. Parts of my configuration are more than 30 years old.”
endorse · personal · 30 yr · jwr · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't think emacs is getting in my way.”
endorse · personal · 9999gold · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for ~15 years. ... I use emacs everyday. ... It is good at what it does, it happens to do other things too but I don't know if that is the best way to work.”
mixed · personal · 15 yr · tarentel · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for 8 years and my init.el is 94 lines long. I guess the defaults mostly work for me.”
endorse · personal · 8 yr · cobolexpert · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the single-thread bites as it can get wedged sometimes and then I have to go hit C-g.”
mixed · personal · skeledrew · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything I was building in my vim configs to make it better was already default in emacs”
endorse · personal · lopotubez · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one day, one of my teachers convinced me to try Emacs, and I've been using it ever since.”
endorse · personal · Gabano · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using less emacs windows and more i3/sway windows... but emacs puts up some resistance to that. I like this approach”
mixed · personal · krupan · 2026-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So Emacs+Vim is the best of both worlds. You get the infinite extensibility of Emacs and a sane(-ish) programming language”
endorse · personal · imiric · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs For Mac OS X [0] for years, and I'm quite happy with it.”
endorse · personal · LordGrey · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using it like this for years, many versions of Emacs and everything Just Works [TM] without D-Bus.”
endorse · personal · TacticalCoder · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You have no idea how instrumental Emacs is for my everyday job-to-get-done tasks.”
endorse · production · iLemming · 2025-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am forever indebted to my younger self for investing some time in understanding the grand ideas behind Vim and Emacs”
endorse · personal · iLemming · 2025-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was so wrong - not only have I found everything I needed, and more, I have developed a true hacker's mindset.”
endorse · personal · iLemming · 2025-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only thing I regret are the keybindings which are not the ones I'm used to.”
mixed · personal · az09mugen · 2025-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been working for many years with people who use Emacs, have many friends who use Emacs, have mentored complete newbies”
endorse · personal · iLemming · 2025-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone who's been using Emacs since before VSCode existed, I simply did not notice the (real) exodus”
endorse · personal · BeetleB · 2024-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for 30 years... I've gotten LSP on emacs working well enough but the performance just isn't there.”
mixed · personal · 30 yr · arrsingh · 2024-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked on very large projects including the entire software stack of a robotics platform and a few enterprise apps using bare Emacs with no autocomplete added.”
endorse · production · bitwize · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“evil on Emacs has been great for me. I've been using vim for 20 years (vim, visual studio, vim again, now Emacs) and Emacs/evil for at least 5 years or so.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · hmeh · 2024-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I never regret time spent on customizing Emacs because I've gotten to the point where I know exactly how to get the most use out of that exercise.”
endorse · personal · iLemming · 2024-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all the power of Emacs is still there under the hood when I need it.”
endorse · personal · s0l1dsnak3123 · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“emacs' discoverability has been quite terrible... I had been using emacs for close to a decade by then.”
mixed · personal · 9 yr · chewxy · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for approaching 20 years... I do have to admit that more recently I don't want to upgrade for fear of breakage.”
mixed · personal · 19 yr · wibblewobble125 · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs since around 1983. It's a hobby and a way of life.”
endorse · personal · 40 yr · darkstarsys · 2023-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I didn't gain the ability to use the mouse to interact with Emacs till 2010 because before then graphical Emacs on Linux had bit-mapped text that I hated to look at”
mixed · personal · hollerith · 2023-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I left emacs after 8 years of running my own config.”
regret · personal · 8 yr · witx · 2023-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have attempted to learn emacs multiple times. I have never been able to get to the point where i felt comfortable at all using it.”
regret · personal · dec0dedab0de · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Working with Emacs has never been better.”
endorse · production · truncate · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it since the late nineties, with a short XEmacs stint, and still use Emacs to this day. And it keeps only getting better and better.”
endorse · personal · 24 yr · TacticalCoder · 2022-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using it since the 90s, and will likely never move away. But there's no reason to pretend that it doesn't have warts.”
mixed · personal · 25 yr · anyfoo · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also think it is important to point out that both vim and emacs are in active development... They obviously both have significant value to a lot of people.”
endorse · personal · nocman · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the last couple of years, I have been using a combination of Clocking commands [0] in Emacs along with org-journal. It has been working well enough for me.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · psibi · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would not be using emacs as my everything if evil-mode was not a thing.”
endorse · personal · bergheim · 2022-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eventually most of what I do is in emacs rather than vim, and I reach for emacs first.”
endorse · personal · aidenn0 · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for years and probably couldn't write a "hello world" in elisp.”
endorse · personal · jacobsenscott · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am now comfortably running Emacs with WSL + X410.”
endorse · personal · josephferano · 2021-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“compared to when I've tried (and failed) in the past to approach Lisp from Emacs.”
regret · personal · scruple · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for 15+ years too.”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · zomgwat · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Emacs for about 5 years. I don't think I will ever graduate from advanced beginner.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · teataster · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for about 3 months now and enjoying it.”
endorse · personal · 0.25 yr · djhworld · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on a Java project at Google and Emacs worked fine.”
endorse · production · jrockway · 2020-04-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Emacs for 20+ years with Lisp.”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · mark_l_watson · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs since the late 70s when my int file was a compiled TECO library that other people also used.”
endorse · personal · 40 yr · gumby · 2019-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for 15 years or so. I recommend Emacs to anyone who thinks it would be fun to use Lisp”
mixed · personal · 15 yr · Myrmornis · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for 40 years.”
endorse · personal · 40 yr · kabdib · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Emacs for about 20 years, and I love that you can use it on Windows and Linux... Where it sucks though is programming language smarts”
mixed · personal · 20 yr · petilon · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started learning vim/emacs two years ago. I don't regret it at all and I use them both daily, even as IDEs.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · jplayer01 · 2019-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was interested in Emacs for a while but couldn't move past the shortcuts.”
mixed · personal · catacombs · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“vim zealot who's been using emacs lately: pros: magit. unbelievable. cons: doesn't feel quite as good as an editor as vim”
mixed · personal · knewter · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for more than 10 years. I'll be still using Emacs when the hotter, newer thing eventually comes around.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · vvillena · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't get how anybody is fine with Emacs' default 'let's pop this buffer anywhere, possibly hiding a useful window'.”
mixed · personal · simias · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Emacs rules because it is awesome at integration.”
endorse · personal · krylon · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some just can't be fixed, which leaves me either using a different editor for those needs or just not using those packages by using conditional configs”
mixed · personal · kungtotte · 2018-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Paying the state back some VAT happens once a month, use emacs to do it manually. I really love it.”
endorse · production · jdemler · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for about 27 years, and even wrote two novels ( e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6 ) in it.”
endorse · personal · 27 yr · tjic · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs since 2000 or so... I'm still quite productive with it because the base stuff Emacs is good at is already pretty darned good!”
endorse · personal · 17 yr · ubernostrum · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I rarely even need to reboot Emacs.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · jeremiep · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Emacs `shell` is my "default" terminal; I currently have 24 shell buffers open.”
endorse · personal · chriswarbo · 2017-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Dvorak with Emacs for more than ten years. No remapping, the key bindings are fine as they are, in many ways even better than with QWERTY.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · mbrock · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I won't ever use Emacs for PHP again. It's features are so addicting that I don't mind not having the shortcuts”
regret · personal · skuzye · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Emacs seems to work just fine.”
endorse · personal · yummyfajitas · 2016-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has enough features for me to remove the overhead of an emacs + evil install just for org-mode.”
regret · personal · jcpst · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“right now it runs Emacs in xterm which is pretty good but the programming model is somewhat antiquated”
endorse · personal · mbrock · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for over a decade now. Every now and then (say, once a week), I feel the need to fiddle with some ELisp code.”
mixed · personal · 10 yr · AceJohnny2 · 2016-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an editor I have been using for 20 years, just not a huge fan of the package environment”
mixed · personal · 20 yr · jmount · 2015-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using emacs for over 15 years. I still discover new things.”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · Tistel · 2015-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for almost 30 years... one of its main weaknesses is out of the box code-completion.”
mixed · personal · 30 yr · melling · 2014-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using PlantUML with Emacs's plantuml-mode quite successfully.”
endorse · personal · bdsatish · 2014-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs and GPG files (one for personal stuff, one for work accounts) as a password manager since GNU Emacs 22 came out with GPG integration in 2007.”
endorse · personal · 7 yr · sedachv · 2014-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the 22 years that i have been using emacs, there hasn't been a period of concentrated study. But it serves me well for most of my programming and writing.”
endorse · personal · 22 yr · wglb · 2014-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Magnar's and Christian's excellent collection of emacs settings and packages for some years now”
endorse · personal · thomasfl · 2014-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for a while, but the great thing about emacs is that it just keeps on giving.”
endorse · personal · josteink · 2014-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“text editing experience in PyCharm is much worse than it is in Emacs (or Vim, for that matter).”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · klibertp · 2014-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Emacs has served me well ever since.”
endorse · personal · subsection1h · 2014-02-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is one of the things I love about emacs. I've been using it for over a decade now”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · macavity23 · 2013-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only been using Emacs for 4-5 months, and I'm already very efficient with it.”
endorse · personal · 0.4 yr · actsasbuffoon · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“editors that "understand" Lisp-like syntax are more powerful than other code editors”
endorse · personal · edoloughlin · 2013-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Emacs for quite a while now. It offers (via AucTeX/RefTeX) a brilliant solution for bibtex files”
endorse · personal · rmk2 · 2012-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is one of the strongest reasons I chose GNU Emacs as my editor. ... This is a feature I do miss in Emacs.”
mixed · personal · lelele · 2012-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently made a switch to Emacs. Sometimes I regret it.”
mixed · personal · Andrew-Dufresne · 2012-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the long run C-v, M-v, and C-s end up being way faster and more accurate than 2 finger scrolling.”
endorse · personal · __david__ · 2011-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Get the best of both worlds, the nice vim movements and model editing, plus all the nice emacs packages and being able to use elisp”
endorse · personal · cgag · 2011-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love Emacs and have been using it daily for the last few years, but it's not newbie friendly.”
mixed · personal · 3 yr · suivix · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Evil+Emacs for the past month and it's quite nice.”
endorse · personal · 0.1 yr · lucian1900 · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs pretty much every day for about 2-3 years, yet I can't help but feel I've only ventured a couple of miles”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · ibrow · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried Emacs and Vi for several months (really really wanting to like them) and I never "grok it".”
regret · personal · xtracto · 2011-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was a full-time emacs user for several years. There was a lot I liked: lisp, programmability in general”
mixed · personal · 3 yr · kemiller · 2011-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone who lives in Emacs and the Terminal”
endorse · personal · pnathan · 2011-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for years. It's definitely worth the learning curve.”
endorse · personal · zacharypinter · 2010-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the past few months, I've been running Yamamoto Mitsuharu's experimental "Mac port" of standard Emacs.”
endorse · personal · dhess · 2010-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've probably been using Emacs primarily for the last decade at least.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · so-cal-schemer · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs since the early 80s, first Gosling's Emacs and shortly after switch to GNU Emacs”
neutral · personal · 44 yr · not2b · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs everyday for the last 25ish years.”
neutral · personal · 25 yr · gpderetta · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for around 30 years and your comment made me curious. My .emacs is 237 lines.”
neutral · personal · 30 yr · patrickmay · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an Emacs with a bunch of frames, and a stack of Xterms.”
neutral · production · __d · 2024-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“don't use much apart from Emacs and Firefox”
neutral · personal · globular-toast · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Obsidian as my mobile client for Emacs. I have a git repo with all my org documents.”
neutral · personal · Difwif · 2023-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I get to use Emacs Markdown mode too, as I please.”
neutral · personal · canistel · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I learned Common Lisp and Emacs exclusively on that little netbook”
neutral · personal · schemescape · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I somehow RTFM'd three times, allegedly diligently and yet I still missed a lot of spots.”
neutral · personal · agumonkey · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used which-key with the three packages I just mentioned for as long as I have been using Emacs”
neutral · personal · koito17 · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally, I've been using Emacs for 5+ years in my day to day job”
neutral · production · 5 yr · tsimionescu · 2023-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using emacs since probably 94.”
neutral · personal · 29 yr · jason_stelzer · 2023-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use emacs as my primary code editor.”
neutral · personal · sawka · 2023-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“While I use Emacs and Clojure, this documentation reads like it's intended for Emacs users”
neutral · personal · koito17 · 2023-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Code review is one of the few things I don't do in emacs, so there remains room for other tools”
neutral · personal · mplanchard · 2023-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A long time ago, I switched from emacs to vim”
neutral · personal · jacobr1 · 2023-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After many years of Emacs (decades, in fact), I went through a few other editors and ended up with VS Code + Calva”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · seancorfield · 2023-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still spend most of my time inside of Emacs irrespective of which OS I'm on.”
neutral · personal · alex_smart · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“edit and copy things from emacs to other code places as if I'm looking at an org mode file”
neutral · production · rjzzleep · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't use Emacs as much as I used to but that's why I built them.”
neutral · personal · psychphysic · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since then, I've been using CIDER on emacs to do Clojure development”
neutral · personal · quanticle · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't use it, because I've been using Emacs for slightly longer than the CUA has existed.”
neutral · personal · NoGravitas · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm a vim head too and tried to embrace emacs, because it seems the de facto standard”
neutral · personal · kgwxd · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've probably switched my editor setup a dozen times, going back and forth between Emacs and several other editors/IDEs.”
neutral · personal · seancorfield · 2022-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linux, traditional Unix editors like vim and emacs, and other keyboard-driven tools for the past decade”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · BeetleB · 2021-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linux, traditional Unix editors like vim and emacs, and other keyboard-driven tools for the past decade”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · throw10920 · 2021-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Emacs 27 from Debian stable.”
neutral · personal · trabant00 · 2021-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“backspace wouldn't work in Emacs out of the box.”
neutral · personal · SequentialDSG · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's funny that I've been using Emacs on windows 10 for years, and I would say that my work flow has only about 5% in common”
neutral · personal · clircle · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using this fork [1] of Emacs.”
neutral · personal · jedbrown · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nix is a non-starter for me as an emacs user.”
neutral · personal · globular-toast · 2020-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you can use emacs/vim to eval against your ssh'd python the same way you'd work locally. I've done this for over a decade.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · emidln · 2020-03-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“"talk" to Jira from Emacs via that tool.”
neutral · personal · iLemming · 2019-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use evil-mode in emacs with the emacs lisp interface that works with Franz's Allegro Common Lisp.”
neutral · personal · emit_time · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one of our engineers figured out how to wire it all up through Emacs so we could stop monkeying around with TLA Toolbox”
neutral · production · im_down_w_otp · 2019-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs' lsp-mode for professional Python development for months now”
neutral · production · jdormit · 2019-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My daily applications consist of Emacs and Firefox”
neutral · personal · napsterbr · 2018-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use emacs these days so I don't notice it being escaped.”
neutral · personal · philsnow · 2018-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for over 25 years, including maintaining to-do lists, but have never dipped my toes into org-mode.”
neutral · personal · 25 yr · blisterpeanuts · 2017-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm clocked into the task so I can always jump to it easily, even as I hop around other emacs buffers”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · gavinpc · 2017-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Emacs for years but only started using Magit this year”
neutral · personal · jeremiep · 2017-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You must be young. I've been using the same Emacs bindings for 35 years.”
neutral · personal · 35 yr · e40 · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally I've been using emacs for about 15 years and would have no trouble sitting down at a fresh install and using it.”
neutral · personal · 15 yr · justinhj · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using vim for decades and use evil/emacs now.”
neutral · personal · WhatIsDukkha · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using org-journal in emacs.”
neutral · personal · jonSson99 · 2016-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Emacs in college, but I much prefer VS”
neutral · personal · bargl · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs everday for over a decade but I am keeping an eye on Atom and LightTable.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · justinhj · 2015-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can do more complicated coding in that repl (inside of emacs).”
neutral · personal · babs474 · 2015-06-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Including a few forays into emacs-land.”
neutral · personal · dredmorbius · 2014-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also make heavy use of emacsclient and tmux sessions and windows in conjunction with iTerm2”
neutral · personal · michaelsbradley · 2014-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“except for Emacs with Evil mode”
neutral · personal · Timothee · 2014-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But how do I get those multi coloured matched brackets? ... which mode enables them in my emacs.”
neutral · personal · retrogradeorbit · 2014-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After using emacs a lot I've ended up preferring screen splitting.”
neutral · personal · to3m · 2014-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mostly I use it in emacs (though at times I use the CLI version). I use it in Linux and Windows.”
neutral · production · surki · 2014-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OS X's sticky-keys setting with Emacs for years, BTW.”
neutral · personal · hollerith · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for years and I didn't know a few of these tricks!”
neutral · personal · noobermin · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use backports for things like Emacs and Iceweasel/Firefox where I like to have recent versions.”
neutral · personal · omerhj · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can even play from Emacs!”
neutral · personal · FatalBaboon · 2014-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using emacs for a while (after vim for 6, 7... 8 years?)”
neutral · personal · codygman · 2013-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using IntelliJ IDEA for many years (coming from C++ in EMACS)”
neutral · personal · henrik_w · 2013-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I compiled it continuously in the background via Emacs and forget about it”
neutral · personal · Kototama · 2013-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Emacs for a year and I didn't know this.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · skylan_q · 2012-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a standard qwerty keyboard with vim, emacs, and textmate - all completely un-customized and ready to go.”
neutral · production · Schwolop · 2012-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the other is xmonad and emacs on Arch Linux on VirtualBox.”
neutral · personal · rcb · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using emacs for over 10 years”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · heyrhett · 2011-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in my case I mostly do everything with Emacs anyways, so it doesn't bother me.”
neutral · production · aespinoza · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Evil for a couple of months and love it. Any VIM user considering Emacs should give it a shot”
neutral · personal · 0.2 yr · ryane · 2011-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just have been using emacs for almost everything”
neutral · personal · wwkeyboard · 2011-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for the past month or so.”
neutral · personal · 0.1 yr · lucian1900 · 2011-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using it since perhaps 1990.”
neutral · production · 21 yr · wglb · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Well, I was using emacs. Seriously, 20 year olds have always been using emacs.”
neutral · personal · __david__ · 2011-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You don't have to use Emacs. Use what ever editor you want.”
neutral · personal · super_mario · 2011-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Doesn't matter if we are vim or emacs, it's keyboard keyboard keyboard.”
neutral · personal · Apreche · 2010-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's emacs. I've been using it for 20 years now; the control keys are burned into my brain.”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · metageek · 2010-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Still pain: the only working IDE is Emacs+ENSIME, documentation is scarce, learning curve is very steep.”
neutral · production · CCs · 2010-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using eterm only since I started using Emacs about three years ago”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · ivanstojic · 2010-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“About half and half emacs and vim for general editing.”
neutral · personal · mullr · 2010-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The current EMACS we use (GNU or X) started from a fully functional version of an EMACS written for the VAX”
neutral · personal · hga · 2010-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On Linux, I can get by with Emacs.”
neutral · personal · luffy · 2010-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?