Emacs
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“I do all my writing and occasional coding in Emacs.”
Piers Cawley Interview, Carer, singer, photographer, streamer · via Uses This 
“It wouldn't make sense to start out with anything other than Emacs.”
Katherine Cox-Buday Interview, Writer, computer scientist · via Uses This 
“Emacs for editing, which is about half my day.”
Graydon Hoare Interview, Developer (Rust) · via Uses This 
“The one exception is Emacs, my second favorite text editor, though these days I only use Emacs for extending Emacs.”
Chris Wellons Interview, Software engineer · via Uses This 
“I deeply regret the MBP - 1: dongle life, 2: the lack of a physical escape key makes coding in emacs very difficult, 3: the keys on the butterfly keyboard are constantly too loose or totally stuck, 4: so much beach ball.”
Tracy Chou Interview, Software engineer, diversity advocate · via Uses This 
“That lead me to dipping my toes into this endless well (some say: abyss) called Emacs.”
Thorsten Ball Interview, Writer, software developer · via Uses This 
“There's probably one exception, and that's Emacs, the venerable text editor, wherein I actually do the work that pays me.”
Dorian Taylor Interview, Entropy schlepper, maker of toys and diversions · via Uses This 
“GNU Emacs for all sorts of text editing, including coding”
Stefano Zacchiroli Interview, Computer science researcher, teacher, developer (Debian) · via Uses This 
“I spend most of my screen time in Emacs, in terminal and editor buffers, whether on my host OS or a virtual box.”
Karl Anderson Interview, Software engineer, phone hardware hacker · via Uses This 
“I also use emacs a lot.”
Håkon Wium Lie Interview, CTO (Opera Software), creator of CSS · via Uses This 
“I use Emacs for everything text.”
Carlos Bueno Interview, Software developer (MemSQL), writer · via Uses This 
“My writing tools have gone through three phases: 1993-2003, mainly emacs in a telnet window.”
Clay Shirky Interview, Writer, teacher (NYU) · via Uses This 
“I converted after learning emacs in my college days -- vim just seems more efficient.”
Chris Klimas Interview, Web developer (Twine) · via Uses This 
“I'm kind of old-school, so I reach for Emacs to do all my non-trivial editing.”
Paul Tweedy Interview, Senior Technical Architect, BBC · via Uses This 
“Every once in a while I try emacs but have never gotten fluent enough to make it worth switching.”
Brian Kernighan Interview, Computer scientist (Unix), writer · via Uses This 
“When I'm at the computer I'm usually working inside of Emacs.”
Mike Fogus Interview, Software developer, author · via Uses This 
“I write a lot, almost always in XML, so I use Emacs in nxml-mode.”
Seth Kenlon Interview, Writer, podcaster, multimedia artist · via Uses This 
“Emacs is home sweet home and I use it across the board for development and pretty much anything text-related.”
Tamas Kemenczy Interview, Game designer (Kentucky Route Zero), web developer (Pitchfork) · via Uses This 
“I have made the right Control key sticky, which helps a lot with emacs.”
Neha Narula Interview, PhD student, data scientist, developer · via Uses This 
“When I need a terminal-based editor, I use Emacs, like god intended.”
Dana Contreras Interview, Systems engineer (Twitter), pilot · via Uses This 
“If I'm working only at the command-line, I'll use emacs.”
John Myles White Interview, Statistics hacker, PhD student · via Uses This 
“I do as much as I can in GNU Emacs since it pains me to use monolithic software that can't be modified at runtime.”
Phil Hagelberg Interview, Hacker-errant (Heroku) · via Uses This 
“I use emacs to write code and prose.”
Mary Rose Cook Interview, Coder, musician · via Uses This 
“At this point I have programmed in so many key-stroke combos to my TextMate that I might as well be in Emacs, but alas.”
Drew Conway Interview, Researcher (terrorism, maths, stats, machine learning) · via Uses This 
“My tools have not changed much since grad school: emacs for coding and print statements for debugging.”
Jonathan Foote Interview, Recovering scientist · via Uses This 
“I always have Emacs up, in one Terminal.”
Andrew Plotkin Interview, Hacker, IF Wizard · via Uses This 
“Emacs 23 full-screen on the center (widescreen) monitor.”
Mark Pilgrim Interview, Developer & standards advocate (Google) · via Uses This 
“I spend most of my time using Emacs.”
Richard Stallman Interview, Freedom campaigner · via Uses This
