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We have macros

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Welcome to the dark side. We have macros.

I’ve been using Emacs ever since my final years at ETH when my mentor convinced me to give it a try. Was that really the late eighties? That can’t be true. Might have been 18.54 even. Then at my first real job I pushed for installation of 19.23 when it came out. I hacked on the ada-mode at the time.

From decomplecting.org1:

Emacs is a deep, deep rabbit hole. The only way in is head first. But there’s so much you can do in here, and it’s a staggeringly powerful environment.

Welcome to the dark side. We have macros.

  1. Link is dead, but the Internet archive has it preserved ↩︎