What brought you to #Emacs?

For me, it was being able to split a file buffer across windows.

@myTerminal

faculty to incoming CS majors: "oh, and you're going to need a decent editor/IDE. there's #vi and there's #emacs. pick one and figure it out."

I'm paraphrasing, of course. and that was c1988....

@davidbraze @myTerminal We used pico (before nano) and no one knew what an IDE was.