Famous Emacs Users
Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth uses emacs
![Donald Knuth emacs screen 1994 GdnQ](i/Donald_Knuth_emacs_screen_1994_GdnQ.jpg)
- color-mode.el
- An experimental line-oriented color mode for Emacs (August 2000) knuth_color-mode.el
- Sample Fvwm2 Config File
- The emacs-oriented desktop layouts I use on my home computer to write books; these also need icons zero.xpm, one.xpm, two.xpm, three.xpm (May 2000, updated December 2007)
- my6x13.bdf and my6x13B.bdf
- TeX-oriented bitmap fonts that I use for text editing with emacs
[2018-10-10 from https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html ]
Julian Assange of wikileaks
![emacs Julian Assange window el 45ec3](i/emacs_Julian_Assange_window_el_45ec3.png)
Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz) (Ruby)
Guido van Rossum (python)
![python Guido van Rossum use emacs 2018-10-09 9207d](i/python_Guido_van_Rossum_use_emacs_2018-10-09_9207d.png)
you can see references from python documentation especially early versions, where emacs is mentioned. e.g. adopting emacs unicode declaration -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
in file first line, and mention how python's inline doc formatting convention is different from in emacs function convention.
Jonathan Blow (game Braid, Jai language)
![Jonathan Blow emacs 2021-11-15](i/Jonathan_Blow_emacs_2021-11-15.jpg)
Simon Peyton Jones (haskell)
![simon peyton jones emacs](i/simon_peyton_jones_emacs.png)
Rich Hickey (Clojure)
• Clojure's Rich Hickey. (appears, look at his video presentations. It seems all are emacs.)
Joe Armstrong (Erlang)
![Erlang Joe Armstrong emacs 8a30c](i/Erlang__Joe_Armstrong_emacs_8a30c.png)
Alexander Stepanov (generic programming)
![Alexander Stepanov emacs 4FGs](i/Alexander_Stepanov_emacs_4FGs.png)
Andrei Alexandrescu (D lang)
Andrei Alexandrescu (1 of 2 creator of D lang)
Daniel Stenberg (curl)
Daniel Stenberg, most famous as author of the web page fetching tool curl.
EMACS!
JANUARY 8, 2009 DANIEL STENBERG
I haven't said it here before, but I feel I really should. I've been an avid emacs user since I started to learn it back in 1991 on emacs 18. I worked at IBM with their RS/6000 machines at the time and I learned C on AIX with emacs as my editor.
[2022-05-06 from https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2009/01/08/emacs/]
Here's Daniel Stenberg using emacs
Dec 3, 2019
Daniel Stenberg
Stephen Wolfram (Mathematica)
• Stephen Wolfram used emacs, at least in the 1990s (from internal company communications 1995, he had asked emacs question) but i think now just Mathematica.
Separate note, Mathematica used to support emacs keybinding in the 1990s.
Brendan Eich (JavaScript)
• JavaScript Brendan Eich used to emacs, but switched to vi.
![JavaScript Brendan Eich emacs ba603](i/JavaScript_Brendan_Eich__emacs_ba603.png)
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- Guy Steele (a lisp god) He used emacs before Richard Stallman.
- Peter Norvig (a lisp god)
- Eric Raymond (open source creator). he co-wrote Learning GNU Emacs. Old contributor of emacs (mentioned in acknowledgment), and regular blogger now and then talk about emacs.
- Jamie Zawinsky. created xemacs.
- Steve Yegge. famous blogger. worked at amazon, google.
- OCaml's Xavier Leroy. Source?
- MySQL creator Michael Widenius. Source?
- Netscape Andreesen
- Paul Graham, uses vim
- Larry Wall, uses vim
- Rob Pike, uses acme
- Java's James Gosling wrote Gosling emacs, one of the early emacs, but i think he no longer use emacs
- Linux creator Linus Torvalds uses micro-emacs
thx to ag for the thread [ https://twitter.com/iLemming/status/1047250128099192832 accessed: 2018-10-02]