Post AX9YIsSOTp5Sq3PmO8 by louis@emacs.ch
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 (DIR) Post #AX80do8g8cxjvc2fUe by Bidgehop@emacs.ch
       2023-06-27T19:17:04Z
       
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       #emacs users, how did you discover Emacs?For me it was recommended by a fellow contributor to an OSS project after I told him I use Vim in a conversation about editors
       
 (DIR) Post #AX80doxN69VoSpl9VY by mitchmarq42xyz@emacs.ch
       2023-06-27T20:46:57Z
       
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       @Bidgehop getting into Linux and hearing echoes of the Editor Wars. Vim was the "haha how do I exit vim", emacs was "its an whole operating system but also bloat or something". I picked nvim, listened to tons of vim propaganda, and eventually hit a wall. Finally gave Emacs a fair shot and loving it since.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX9YIsSOTp5Sq3PmO8 by louis@emacs.ch
       2023-06-28T14:38:49Z
       
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       @Bidgehop Many years ago a colleague of mine at work started to used Spacemacs. He was the only one not using [VSCode, Atom, JetBrains etc.]. At that time I had no idea what Emacs actually was other than "a very old editor with very complicated keybindings and much slower than Vim". Lisp? That was just a hint of a distant past that no longer had anything to do with todayDuring the COVID lockdown I suddenly hat a lot of time at hand. I switched to Linux on my Desktop and developed a GTK desktop app (Tuner) - as a diversion to my daily web backend dev stuff. During that process I learned about Richard Stallman, the FOSS philosophy, GNU and all that. Naturally, Emacs is a big part of that. So, I rolled up my sleeves, ordered printed copies of the Emacs and Elisp manuals and started hacking on Emacs (btw. Spacemacs, Doom and alike never attracted me). So I started my own config and went into init.el bankruptcy like 3 times over the course of a 1-2 years. I was also trying super hard to remember all these key bindings and failed of course. With the consequence that I abandoned Emacs.What sticked however was my interest for Lisp. And since Emacs is the obvious choice for anything related to Lisp development, it always re-introduced (or should I say "forced") itself into my life. In 2022 I reached a point where I found myself using it even for emails (not any more though) and most of my daily coding.When Mastodon suddenly became so popular, I saw it as an oppotunity to contribute something to the Emacs community on a non-technical level. When I started this instance in Nov 2022, I never would have imagined that it would grow into what we have now.