我不認為使用 Emacs 可以提升一個人的程式設計技巧,我也不認為一些名人之前使用 Emacs 可以提供什麼。但這些名人鼓勵我在我想放棄時學習 Emacs。我在這裡建立了一個著名的 Emacs 使用者列表。
此列表中的大多數人並非因為他們開發 Emacs 而聞名,但他們很出名並且也使用 Emacs。
Joe Armstrong -- Erlang's author
在 The Setup, Joe 提到
I write books using XML markup in emacs (nxml mode)" and "I write code in Emacs"
Amelia Andersdotter -- Politician
在一次訪談中,Amelia 提到
but I do still use Emacs and org-mode
Steve Brust -- Author of Wad Taltos
在 My Own Kind of Freedom, Steve 提到
the book was written in emacs on a box running Mandrake Linux
Vernor Vinge -- Author of True Names and A Fire Upon the Deep
在一次訪談中,Vernor 介紹了他的工作環境,顯然他正在使用 Emacs。
Whitfield Diffie -- Security expert, Diffie-Hellman key exchange
在 Hacker News 上,jf 說
Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event.
Marc Andreessen -- Mosaic browser autho, Netscape founder
Here is Marc's profile on EmacsWiki
Richard Gabriel -- Author of Worse is Better
Gabriel is initiator of Lucid Emacs.
Guy Steele -- Author of C: A Reference Manual
Steele is one of the authors of Emacs.
Peter Norvig -- Artificial Intelligence expert. Author of Design of Computer Programs
在一次訪談中, Norvig 提到
I dislike all three major OS – Windows, Mac, Linux. I like Python and Lisp. Emacs
Jamie Zawinski -- Mozilla and XEmacs main contributor.
Daniel Weinreb --Founder of Symbolics
Daniel Weinred was a pioneer of Lisp and Emacs
Julian Assange -- WikiLeaks founder
A code snippet authored by Julian Assange.
Mark Zuckerberg -- Faceook founder
在電影 The Social Network 中,Mark 使用 Emacs 來編輯 PHP 和 Perl 腳本。他也在他的部落格中提到
it’s definitely necessary to break out emacs and modify that perl script
Guido van Rossum -- Author of Python
在一篇關於 Python user experience 的文章中,Guido 提到
I am mostly an entrenched Emacs user
Linus Torvalds-- Linux kernel and Git author
在一篇 Google+ 上的文章中,Linus 提到他使用 emacs 作為他的主要編輯器。
Donald Knuth --Author of TeX and The Art of Computer Programming
There is one Elisp code snippet on Donald's homepage: color-mode.el
Richard Stallman --GNU Emacs author.
Hey, Why I am not in this list?