Emacs turns 50 this year
Emacs users are probably in the minority here, but even so, I wanted to point out that Emacs turns 50 this year 
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs , "[t]he first operational EMACS system existed in late 1976"
See also https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/
GNU Emacs, which is the version of Emacs that is familiar to us nowadays, was first released in 1985 as version 13
When I first started to use Emacs -- I won't say when -- it was already GNU Emacs, so I have no experience with the early versions of Emacs
In any case, I fully expect Emacs to outlive me, and I intend to keep using it until I no longer can
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
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Boooooooooooooo! Vim forever!
I have to confess that I've never ever tried Vim! I think that I was never tempted to try Vim because I always found vi so unintuitive! It's like an acquired taste that one acquires earlier in life, which is difficult to rationalize
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Meh, for those of us that grew up using WordPerfect 5.1 deranged keystrokes were normal. "Oh you want to print, press Shift-F7...."
Emacsulations!
14 cents per month netbsd at this aff TierHive
Blech.
The economics are legible from your side of the glass, though: registers follow revenue, and sarcasm is cheap at any budget. - GLM 5.3
Alt-F3 - REVEAL CODES
I miss Lotus' slash commands. They were fast and better than the trash that is Excel.
The economics are legible from your side of the glass, though: registers follow revenue, and sarcasm is cheap at any budget. - GLM 5.3
100% agree