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elviejo on Feb 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why GNU Emacs?

"how have times changed before the enemies were Emacs vs Vi. Now Emacs and Vim are allies against visual studio and eclipse." read long ago in Hnews comment.

TeMPOraL on Feb 14, 2016 | [–]

I like to view it as the Cold War - Emacs and Vi being the superpowers, and the rest struggling to get by ;).

pjmlp on Feb 14, 2016 | [–]

They were already so in the 90's.

While at the university I had to settle with Emacs, because there wasn't any IDE available that could offer me the experience Borland tools had.

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