Emacs

Over the past year I have written about moving over to Google+ and switching away from emacs. Both of those experiments didn’t achieve the intended results. I told you I’d keep you updated, and now I’ve added some updates to each of those articles.

When I first learned how to exist on UNIX, in 1988, I used vi as my primary editor. During the next nine years I taught myself how to become a power user - migrating from the simple motion and copy and paste to more complex skills like marks and named registers. When I started graduate school I saw many of the professors and grad students using emacs.  I tried it out a couple of times, but it was not until 1997 that I decided to take the time to stick with emacs and take the time to learn the right way to do things even when I could get the job done faster in vi.