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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 9 Sep 1994.
Talk: What is Emacs?

Talk: What is Emacs?

In article <34mssm$bi...@gagme.wwa.com>,
Arthur van Leeuwen <art...@sci.kun.nl> wrote:
>
>Oh? The most popular editor in the world of Unix? Why don't I see anybody
>here using it?

Because it isn't very user-friendly. It's less strange than vi, but it's 
still very kludgy. Despite that, Emacs is still the most popular editor in 
the world of UNIX, mainly because it's very powerful, so hacker types like it.
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