- In Elif Batuman's 2017 novel The Idiot, about a naive Harvard student, her not-really-a-boyfriend Ivan, a math student, enthuses to her about Emacs. The book is set in 1995.
I enjoyed the book. It got good reviews and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
- Hilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png
by saaspirant
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- Something similar:
Nmap In The Movies
https://nmap.org/movies/
- How to sell drugs online fast was a great show because they kept stressing how they had to have the test pass in their Vue front end.
I always whenever I see code on a show/movie I wonder if it's real, a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.
Also recently watched Nirvana 1997 really good.
by mattdeboard
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- I traded emacs for vscode several years ago now but this post made me wonder if I'd be insane for dusting off my herd of finely shorn yaks to try typescript dev again with it.
At the time I left for vscode, emacs had a REALLY bad Typescript story and it felt like a revelation doing TS in vscode.
Surely emacs has gotten a definitive TS solution since, idk, 2018? 2019? Right?
- Cryptonomicon has the use of a highly custom version of Emacs called OrdoEmacs.
https://dev.to/hyenast2/neal-stephenson-s-cryptonomicon-and-...
- Enjoyable list but I’m not sure the AlphaGo documentary counts as pop culture :).
It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.
by wowczarek
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- There's an obscure Polish film from 2002, "Haker" (Hacker), obscure for many reasons and not in a good way; it's absolute drivel, not even accidentally funny in a MST3K, B movie kind of way - it's just really, really bad.
In this gem there is a conversation about hacking into some system, and a character asks another a completely nonsensical semi jargon question, which goes like this: "Did you try Emacs via Sendmail?". I shit you not.
This expression firmly cemented itself into Polish tech speak as a way to refer to or call out someone having absolutely no idea what they are taking about.
by martinjee_op
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- I’ll always think this is the greatest Emacs pop culture appearance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kcOfWSDEjg
- Not exactly an appearance, but I definitely give emacs a shout-out in the end notes of my new novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX
- > In a scene (Season 3, Episode 6) where protagonist Richard is coding with his new girlfriend Winnie at her apartment (okay, yeah… that’s not how all software engineers date, whatever the outside world may think), the two clash over the use of spaces versus tabs. Richard, a stubborn advocate of the tab character for indentation, argues: “I mean I do not get why anyone would use spaces over tabs. I mean, why not just use Vim over Emacs?” To which Winnie replies, “I do use Vim over Emacs.” Richard then breaks down, yelling, “Oh, God help us!”
Gotta admit that I use Emacs and favor spaces over tabs. And K&R braces. And you’re wrong if you make any other choice.
by DonHopkins
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- I have a cat named Emacs.
- Nice. I've never seen any of these things except for Tron: Legacy; and I either didn't notice it was Emacs or immediately forgot if I did (you could also sorta take it to be tmux or something if you don't look closely enough to see the *eshell*). But this is the sort of thing I would generally never let my acquaintances hear the end of if I spotted :)
by spillcoffee
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- Do you lose all street cred if you use Emacs keyboard shortcuts whenever you can, but will use vim/nvim if there is no other choice?
- I've often felt that Emacs is more popular in Japan than I'd expect. Could just be blue car syndrome on my part.
by kstrauser
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- Jamie Zawinski should be on the list. He hacked on XEmacs for ages.
- Anyone know of an equivalent list but for Vi/Vim?
by yanhangyhy
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- i have been using it from collage. 15 years+ now, i still love it for it's design, and i would expect to use for another 15 years.
- I'd add rms/Richard Stallman to that list of famous emacs users. He's famous for way more than just gnu emacs, so it's not quite cheating.
by internet_points
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- See also https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsStories
The air traffic control one is my favorite :)
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And when searching for emacs air traffic control I stumbled on https://www.idsairnav.com/main-areas/aim/airport-em-environm... haha:
> EMACS, Electromagnetic Control and Survey, is an AIM (aeronautical information management) tool that applies advanced simulation techniques to perform airport and Enroute electromagnetic environment analysis as well as airport and en-route electromagnetic site verification.
by valisvalis
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- Someone please make a Vim version.
- There is some trainspotting I can identify with!
by IlikeMadison
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- Yann LeCun is an Emacs user
by neonnoodle
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- IIRC there’s another scene in Silicon Valley where they have a post-it board of feature ideas for their software and one of them is “emacs keybindings.”
- JT Nimoy, responsible for the Tron scenes, had a nice write-up about their work on it as well:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120502000130/https://jtnimoy.n...
- now someone do a "VIM appearances in pop culture" :)
by itrunsdoomguy
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- Time for an elisp port of Doom
by laidoffamazon
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- I was hoping for Pantheon too (I’m 90% sure Holstrom uses EMacs instead of Vim?)
by DonHopkins
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- Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
Writing an Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs) | James Gosling and Lex Fridman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7aB-oxjVc
by herodoturtle
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- That TRON theme linked in the article is cool, thanks for sharing.
At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?
by guidoschmidt
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- Bonus points for silicon valley doubling the Emacs references with vim AND spaces vs tabs
by redbluething
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- "Jokes on you, Lenny. I use Emacs with Evil-mode – the best of both worlds!" <fistbump>
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by sscaryterry
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- Pfft. (neo)vim FTW ;)
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