The very first text editor 3653
Since I have been, at different times, a developer (of code), an author (of text), and an editor both of code and of text, I have to say that I disagree entirely with Barb's dislike of Emacs in all its forms--the original TECO implementation for Tops-20 and ITS and the Lisp implementations on Multics, Lisp machines, and general purpose systems.
I have never found myself hampered by the use of the control or meta keys any more than I have been hampered by the use of the shift key in entering English text. I know TECO, and it would not have saved me any time in any of the jobs I have had to do over the last 28 years.1 In point of fact, I have found it useful to install AMIS (an EMACS clone written in Pascal, for sake) on the PDPplanet 2065, just to get real work done.
Barb is free to disbelieve that, of course.
Not might. Yes. No. What is generally good for efficiency can be used (or rather not-used) by the coders. Coders are abominably slow; anything that can speed up their data entry...
1 Approximate amount of time that has pbutted since I first learned EMACS as as TECO.
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