Those famous Emacs users

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Summary

Many prominent figures across the technology landscape, including creators of foundational programming languages and operating systems, have been documented Emacs users. This diverse group ranges from Joe Armstrong (Erlang) and Guido van Rossum (Python) to Linus Torvalds (Linux) and Donald Knuth (TeX). Even Mark Zuckerberg and Julian Assange have been observed using Emacs for development tasks. The compilation highlights that while Emacs usage doesn't inherently boost programming skills, seeing such influential individuals embrace the editor can serve as significant encouragement for developers learning or using Emacs. This anecdotal evidence showcases Emacs's enduring presence among highly impactful technologists.

我不认为使用Emacs可以提高一个人的编程技能,我也不认为一些名人之前使用过Emacs就能提供什么。但是,这些名人鼓励我在想要放弃的时候学习Emacs。在这里,我创建了一个著名的Emacs用户列表。

此列表中的大多数人出名不是因为他们开发了Emacs,而是他们很出名并且也使用Emacs。

Joe Armstrong -- Erlang's author

在 The Setup中,Joe提到

I write books using XML markup in emacs (nxml mode)" and "I write code in Emacs"

Amelia Andersdotter -- Politician

在一次采访中,Amelia提到

but I do still use Emacs and org-mode

Steve Brust -- Author of Wad Taltos

在My Own Kind of Freedom中,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

在一次采访中,Vernor介绍了他的工作环境,显然他正在使用Emacs。

Whitfield Diffie -- Security expert, Diffie-Hellman key exchange

在 Hacker News 上,jf 说

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 是 Marc 在 EmacsWiki 上的个人资料

Richard Gabriel -- Author of Worse is Better

Gabriel 是 Lucid Emacs 的发起人。

Guy Steele -- Author of C: A Reference Manual

Steele 是 Emacs 的作者之一。

Peter Norvig -- Artificial Intelligence expert. Author of Design of Computer Programs

在一次采访中,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 是 Lisp 和 Emacs 的先驱

Julian Assange -- WikiLeaks founder

一段由 Julian Assange 编写的代码片段。

Mark Zuckerberg -- Faceook founder

在电影《社交网络》中,Mark 使用 Emacs 编辑 PHP 和 Perl 脚本。 他还在他的博客中提到

it’s definitely necessary to break out emacs and modify that perl script

Guido van Rossum -- Author of Python

在一篇关于 Python 用户体验的文章中,Guido 提到

I am mostly an entrenched Emacs user

Linus Torvalds-- Linux kernel and Git author

在 Google+ 上的一篇文章中,Linus 提到他使用 emacs 作为他的主要编辑器。

Donald Knuth --Author of TeX and The Art of Computer Programming

在 Donald 的主页上有一个 Elisp 代码片段:color-mode.el

Richard Stallman --GNU Emacs author.

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yilmazhuseyin
May 4, 2015 at 3:41 am

Hey, Why I am not in this list?

Pi Ke
May 4, 2015 at 10:14 am

Hey, I want to be on this list, too.

Corwin
Oct 18, 2024 at 10:26 pm

Vlad Taltos

Anonymous
Feb 7, 2025 at 8:35 am

Are you kidding? Where is our hero?

Eric S. Raymond

 

 
Anonymous
Oct 29, 2025 at 5:37 am

Everybody hates Raymond