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-A programers
' text editor and [IDE]. See emacs(1).
+A programmers
' text editor and [IDE]. See emacs(1).
Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. It is extensible with its [Elisp] scripting language, and almost everything you could ever need (including a complete WebBrowser) has been written in ELisp. Emacs is an editor pretending to be an OperatingSystem.
[Unix] programmers tend to settle on either Emacs or vi(1) as their main programming environment, then pick on each other for their choices.
''Mandatory quote:''
;: ''"[Emacs] is a nice operating system - it just lacks a good editor."''
''--[Aristotle|AristotlePagaltzis] "[Vim] is awesome" [Pagaltzis|AristotlePagaltzis]''
