Reply to jynx (RPoD): Living in emacs
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Jynx mentioned experimenting with "living" in Emacs.  As somebody who
made the shift from "using" Emacs (an on/off ~20yr state) to living
in emacs a few years ago, I just want to say: welcome!  It's a cozy
place to live, and you're always in complete control of your environment.

For those who don't understand why on earth anyone might bury themselves
inside their *text editor*, the reason this makes sense is that Emacs
is less an editor and more a live programming *environment*. In the same
sense that Smalltalk environments like Squeak provide.  Such environments
do not impose a distinction between programmer and user.  They provide you
with a sandpit and tools which already do some stuff, but also make it
as easy as possible to do other stuff - your stuff.

We tend to forget that the reason computers are amazing is not that they
can do "x"  where "x" is whatever some expert decided to allow you to do,
but that they are in fact "universal machines".  And of course it's in
the interest of big tech and many governments that we forget this.
Environments like Emacs are some of the few remaining bastions of this
important idea.
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