It’s a text editor you customise by programming it. Why do you think that’s appealing?
I think we found the guy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
I think you missed the joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMacThis stupid antique computer is the reason my iOS keyboard autocorrects “emacs” to “eMacs”
Running emacs on emacs. Inception!
Remember when monitors were so fat you could hide a whole computer inside one?
Apple’s still doing it.
my computer lives inside my keyboard, next to the keyboard’s computer
I’m sure emacs is great but I learned about vim and neovim first so it’s kind of a done deal already, not a lot of us Linux users are open source enthusiasts with so much time that we can noodle in all different flavors of text editors.
vim works great for me shrug, if emacs works great for you then awesome
When I started with Linux, I started with vim because the tutorials I was working off used vi and vim. Once I started with vim and learned the commands, I wasn’t going to switch to something else… there’s a joke somewhere in there about not knowing how to exit… but I’m not making it.
If I was going to write documentation now for a Linux newbie, I’d probably pick nano to start with.
I started with nano and I hated it, I didn’t understand what anything meant in the bottom bar, like what is ^X. Unironically vim was easier to understand. I know what it is now but as a new user I didn’t like using it.
Micro is Nano but the commands make sense. It’s so nice.
It even prompts you for a sudo password when you try to save but don’t have permission.
