evacide

Please enjoy this niche Emacs humor. If you are GenX and have worked in the tech industry, there is a very good chance that you have been this person at some point in your life:

https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc

Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]

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Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Jun 14, 2023
@evacide I don't know if I can watch this because I just spent 20 seconds laughing at "University of Texas Instruments"
Show threadevan Jun 14, 2023
@evacide as a millennial that uses vim, emacs confuses and frightens me 👀
Show threadHollisJun 14, 2023
@evan Huh. As an "elder" millennial, same! ...Is it because we grew up with things like edlin that we like vim so much?
Show threadJoYoJun 14, 2023

@evacide

what do you mean, "maybe"?

Show threadgenehackJun 15, 2023
@JoYo @evacide what do you mean, “been”
Show threadLuis VillaJun 14, 2023
@evacide [colorized] has made me age like the guy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Show threadGreg WhiteheadJun 14, 2023
@evacide ROFL That cuts a little too close to home ;-)
Show threadninavizzJun 14, 2023
@evacide omg this is SO Linux enthusiasts, too, lol. <3
Show threadpsthomsoJun 14, 2023
@evacide
Definitely shared this at work, though i dont think the VSCode folks will understand
Show threadjbJun 14, 2023
@evacide Why you hurt me like this.
Show threadEllieJun 14, 2023

@evacide Look. I know how to exit Emacs, and that's about it.

(Open another terminal, ps -ef | grep emacs, kill -9.)

Show threadTito SwinefluJun 14, 2023
@ellie @evacide OMG! This one made me laugh out loud at my desk.
Show threadKen BruckerJun 14, 2023
@ellie @evacide allow me introduce you to: pkill -9 emacs
Show threadEllieJun 14, 2023
@sigsegv @evacide On machines new enough to me to have EDITOR set wrong, pkill is rarely installed. But sure, if you've got it use it.
Show threadJesse ArnoldJun 14, 2023
@ellie @sigsegv @evacide hilarious because: why would you exit Emacs?
Show threadStenJun 14, 2023
@ellie @evacide Now do vim
Show threadMarcos DioneJun 15, 2023
@ellie @evacide I have one for you: `pkill -9 emacs` :)
Show threadTommy ÞJun 14, 2023
@evacide I loved it. Remarkably on point. (disclaimer: daily Emacs user since 1988, but am VSCode-curious)
Show threadTommy ÞJun 14, 2023
@evacide That "I don't remember [asking your opinion]" had me cracking up.
Show threadfabi3550Jun 14, 2023
@evacide Can't stop laughing about "People don't quit emacs. They just die at some point." :-D
Show threadAlan BuxeyJun 14, 2023
@evacide ha, yes someone shared a link for this earlier today 😀
Show threadGretchen AndersonJun 14, 2023
@evacide how has this not created a civil war here w vi people?!
Show threadBunnyInAHatJun 16, 2023
@gretared @evacide
There is nothing civil about vi users.
Show threadBrian OkkenJun 14, 2023
@evacide @dabeaz 😂
Show threadJon_AlperJun 14, 2023
@evacide “[Colorized]” was the first of several snort-laughs. Thank you! (This post written in Pico cuz I’m lowly management scum.😝)
Show threadYrjänä Rankka 🌻Jun 14, 2023
@evacide at ”some point of time” indeed <peers into the abyss of the git repo of interlinked .org files, laughing maniacally>
Show threadTucker McKnightJun 14, 2023

@evacide I used Emacs for several years.

Some text editors change text.

Emacs...changes you. 🪬

Show threadnilmethodJun 14, 2023
@evacide "two words: org-mode." why do they have to call me out like this?
Show threadTim Penhey 🇳🇿Jun 14, 2023
@evacide OMG this is so good.
Show threadTim Penhey 🇳🇿Jun 14, 2023
@evacide I wish we had quote retweet type functionality... perhaps soon.
Show threadpenryuJun 15, 2023

@evacide

"I used to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org-mode LaTeX and just accept that it's impossible."

"I don't really have time to play Tetris. I gotta work on that config."

I'm dying. That was me and I have died.

Show threadm0xEEJun 15, 2023
@penryu @evacide
> "I used to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org-mode LaTeX and just accept that it's impossible."
Yeah, that's the best part, really cracked me up 🤣
Show threadjulia ferraioliJun 15, 2023
@evacide oh my god I have actually said some of that
Show threadAmye Scavarda PerrinJun 15, 2023
@evacide there was suddenly a great deal of swearing in this house
Show threadRenéeJun 15, 2023

@evacide *whispers* org mooodddeeeeeeee

*dies*

Show threadDavid JONESJun 15, 2023
@evacide this was exactly my first job (at a company that made Lisp compilers). As a performance art I spent a week running /bin/ed in the most expensive workstation I could find: an SGI Indigo.
Show threadShane CelisJun 15, 2023
@evacide "Well that's the thing you don't understand. People never quit Emacs… They just die at some point."
Show threadDehnusJun 15, 2023

@evacide Oh god, these were my professors in university! :P Ad LaTex on top of it and I'm right back in the nightmare. Using Nano was cursing! Using a text editor, and they'd have a heart attack.

Regular battles between VIM users and EMacs users. XD.

So.. Emacs or vim, when they were looking at the screen, then this millennial would quickly switch to nano or some other editor the moment they weren't watching :P .

Show threadsleepysticksJun 19, 2023
@evacide fwiw all of this person's videos resonate so well. He's found a quality niche and style and I've yet to be disappointed.
Show threadBernd PorrJul 1, 2023
@evacide and of course the youtibr clip has been edited in emacs. ctrl-k, ctrl-y.
Show threadMartin IngramJul 6, 2023
@evacide Guilty as charged, m’lud.
Show threadBill DayJul 14, 2023
@evacide OK, that was hilarious, and I am a lawyer. Let us just say, however, that my wife has never let me live down the fact that I made my text editor play music.