Be The Editor

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Derek Slager, whose background sounds a lot like mine, makes a case for using Emacs as an editor. It makes me think of two occasions: first, when I guffawed at James Gosling saying that his favorite IDE was Emacs, and then later on when I was teaching a .NET development class at Countrywide and a person sitting the class (graduate of UPenn) sneered at using Visual Studio .NET and instead opted for Textpad (he hadn't used it before but still leaned towards a simple text editor and his ability with the command line). Needless to say he put everyone to shame.

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