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Umeshism: "If you're using all the features of your editor, you're not using a good enough editor."

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Wait.. Emacs is an editor?

Remember, UNIX was born as a typesetting system; apparently, many great OSs start with text editing;)

> UNIX was born as a typesetting system

Do you have a link about this by any chance?

This is a simplification of Unix history, but is in accordance with the fact that the first eager knon programmer) users of Unix were the people typing patents applications at Bell Labs.

See e.g. "unix, a history and a memoir" by Brian kernigan

I was thinking of it being sold to management as a typesetting system because Bell didn't do OS development. Unfortunately I don't have a reference immediately at hand.

That's funny. Not at all related but the Sidewinder heat-seeking missile got its budget from the fuses department, because it was "an intelligent fuse". (That's where it got its budget, but formally it was sold to management as "a rocket with fire control inside" because China Lake was allowed to work on rockets and fire control – they were expressly forbidden to work on guided missiles.)

Maybe https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html might help.

No, Emacs has an editor. If you're using Evil it even has a good one. ;)

What if you're using neovim with all its possible plugins and moving like a god. It's given neovim is the best editor. What then?

"What if you simply arrive at the perfect time to every flight, neither too early nor too late?"

Nobody can ever do that, so it's pointless to ask.

(I suppose that if you built your own editor this might be true, but if you have your own plane then you're never early or late to your flight either.)

Use what you can to get work done.

Either way other people using a tool or not using a tool shouldn't effect you doing the same.

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