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		antoineMoPa on July 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unexecute I started coding using IDEs some years ago, but after the quick Emacs tutorial, I never went back to GUIs for programming. I like the simplicity of working with text (a terminal) to create text (code). I feel like I can automate anything in the world in Emacs.

pjmlp on July 28, 2016 [–]

I am very visual in terms of computing so I rather use IDEs, but I was a daily Emacs between 1996 and 2005.

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