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> I wouldn’t be surprised if the strongest indicator of whether someone sticks with Emacs is whether they have access to an Emacs expert

A lot of benefits of Emacs you get are when you realize you are operating a lisp VM. Enabling all the same things that other editors do in the same way will not suddenly make them choose Emacs. Someone needs to nudge them towards the good parts of emacs/show a powerful application that will make them use it.



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