Spotting Emacs in the Wild
Spotting Emacs In The Wild No comments by: Zoe Skyforest August 3, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a core piece of software in the coding world that it has showed up a fair few times in popular culture—and [Ian Y.E.
- ▪Spotting Emacs In The Wild No comments by: Zoe Skyforest August 3, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi.
- ▪It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world.
- ▪It’s such a core piece of software in the coding world that it has showed up a fair few times in popular culture—and [Ian Y.E.
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| Original publisher | Hackaday |
| Canonical URL | https://hackaday.com/2026/08/03/spotting-emacs-in-the-wild/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:07 +0000 |
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Spotting Emacs In The Wild No comments by: Zoe Skyforest August 3, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a core piece of software in the coding world that it has showed up a fair few times in popular culture—and [Ian Y.E. Pan] has collated some of those appearances. Emacs played a role in The Social Network, the retelling of the origin story of Facebook (the social network everybody used to use). Notably, Mark Zuckerberg used the tool to slap together a script for scraping a website. It also appears in Tron: Legacy, Arctic Blast, and the tech TV comedy Silicon Valley—more than once, in fact.
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