@williamdavis3658
Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. So the sooner you start, the longer it will take
@trustnoone81
I had no idea Sia has such strong opinions on text editors.
@EscChaos
"I used to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org-mode LaTeX and just accept that it's impossible." Im dying.
@AnthonyBullard
If Richard Stallman ever figures out how to watch YouTube in Emacs you are gonna be in big trouble😂😂😂
@KDEDflyr55
“EMACS cured my autism” might be the funniest and most complex throwaway joke I’ve seen on YT
@botondhetyey159
Emacs is a great OS, it's a shame it doesn't have a good text editor
@ayazar
"Emacs is powerful than any OS." got me!
@adrycough
My CS profs were either some sort of vi/vim wizard blasting through their files typing at 170wpm like they are competing in a speed run while they passionately explain the beauty of CS, or clunkily smacking their cursor back and forth with their touchpad using 5 year old version of IntelliJ or Visual Studio with two typos per line at 30wpm that everyone notices but doesn't point out until compiler spits back errors using a borrowed device from the institution and were only there to teach you the basics. No in-between. As long as you're teaching the material, we're cool, but man, those passionate CS profs were so inspiring.
@landonmackey1091
“Emacs reduces anxiety. Emacs cured my autism!” Another hidden banger on YouTube
@millax-ev6yz
Dude, you are so spot on with these characters! Every time I watch one of your videos I swear you are only like 20 percent more extreme than a person I met in real life. You're so funny, keep it up!
@pangloss9
"People never quit emacs. They just die at some point." Yep, I started using Emacs at work in 1988 and I still use it each day, but I will never die. I wrote the "M-x immortal" command and I also use that daily. Emacs gives you eternal life.
@koobapl
In Poland we got this phrase "with emacs through sendmail" because of this line from some polish movie when hacker says "I'm in!" and the other one asks "How did you do it?", and he replies "With emacs through sendmail" 😆
@IncompleteTheory
"Emacs is more powerful than any OS" - well delivered, just like a freudian slip - loving it!
@bruce-le-smith
the binders, the rolodex, the wired peripherals, the monotone colour scheme of the set. great cinematography. i'm sure wes anderson would approve of this
@Caddy565
"Yeah, I fought in the vim-emacs wars" this one got me in stitches 😂
@michaelliepert9767
You're unbelievable! You even got my keyboard in your film. I am a baby boomer, and half of your text could be quoted from my last 36 years with emacs.... "People don't quit emacs, they just die.". Very well observed, thumbs up! Keep up the good work!!!
@ygstuff4898
Oh my....I remember an older comp.sci instructor in university that was obsessed with Emacs (and Gnu-Emacs), and would get frustrated when we didn't "understand" that Emacs was more than just an editor --- hahaha. We would do everything in Emacs and LaTex, including note handouts, exams, and simple posters. Totally blew his mind when MS Word was force-installed on all faculty computers, and people started sending him .doc files to open & look at. He passed away a decade ago, but I wonder what he would think of Notepad++, VS Code, IntelliJ and alike.
@zimbot_KWB
LOL! Thanks for taking me back. That was me from mid eighties to mid-nineties, working exclusively in HP-UX. But I eventually got sick and tired of having none of my essential customizations handy when working on another computer, such as the products I helped develop. I decided to bite the bullet and force myself to become reasonably adept at using VI, just for those times. Then I had to teach it, and I learned important and powerful capabilities in VI that makes it almost as nice as emacs. Then "vim" came along, which was available everywhere and even an improvement over VI. The biggest impediment to continuing to use emacs, besides my dependence on some customize Gosling bindings, was having to switch from an HP ITF keyboard to a standard PC keyboard, which put the control key in the wrong place, making emacs use non-ergonomic, to say the least. The disappearance of keyboards with reasonably-positioned control keys eventually killed my emacs use once and for all. This video is so bittersweet.
@petertrei
I've been using emacs since 1978. I'm still learning. Im not a purist, I'll use other editors when setting up emacs would be too much of a hassle, such as inside an IDE, or a Linux VM with a life expectancy of only a day. Ive met people like this guy within the past few years - they're still around, and I am on nodding terms with RMS.
@programmersarealsohuman5909