Why the old text editor “Emacs” is still in my toolbox
First version is from 1985 — software rarely survives that long!
4 min readFeb 18, 2021
Chances are you never heard of the text editor “Emacs” — especially if you started your career in this millennium.
I ventured into programming at around the age of 10. This was in the mid eighties and I first dabbled in BASIC on a…