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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 00:45:48 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   The only thing #UNIX did right was to make Emacs the standard editor, (ed) #LispM #LispMachine.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 13:53:30 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Karsten Johansson

     @ksaj All systems I’ve logged in on over the course of 40 years have always had Emacs. :-)

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 13:53:31 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @amszmidt It must drive you crazy that the vast majority of Linux distros, and all embedded OS's that have any editing capability, have vim and not emacs by default. :ablobcatrave:

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 01:27:39 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @amszmidt I don't share that experience. None of my Linux boxes have ever had emacs unless specifically installed after the fact.

     It's probably true for Sun and SCO operating systems. Not on QNX. Not on fbsd. Not on NetBSD. Not even Xenix (remember that one?)

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 01:27:39 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Karsten Johansson

     @ksaj Yup .. old enough to remember Xenix. Ultrix had Emacs, Solaris had Emacs -- at least on the systems I was accessing. Even VMS had Emacs. Maybe just kind sysadmin/sysops. 😉

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 01:36:22 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @amszmidt VMS was pretty unwieldy, so having emacs by default doesn't surprise me much. 😈

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 01:37:01 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Karsten Johansson

     @ksaj It took me 10 years before I figured out you can change the current working directory on VMS.

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 01:37:02 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @amszmidt VMS was pretty unwieldy, so having emacs by default doesn't surprise me much. 😈

     I guess they would have called it EMACS.