Emacs

Accessing Legacy Documents in the iPod Age

GoogleTalksArchive

Editor referenced in discussing semi-structured editing support.

Full Length Episode | #183 | March 21, 2022 | Deep Questions Podcast with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

A modal text editor, mentioned alongside Vim as a powerful tool with a significant learning curve.

Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #240

Lex Fridman

A highly extensible text editor that Neal Stephenson uses for typing up his work and for system administration in Linux, noted for its longevity as 'cockroaches of software'.

Ep. 198 | Escaping Your Inbox, Nuts and Bolts of Slow Productivity, and Living Deep with a Family

Cal Newport

Mentioned as a text editor where developers historically organized their lives in a single file with indentation, similar to life hacking principles.

Ep. 195: The Social Media “Algorithm”, Deep Walks, and Cal’s Simplest Productivity Tool

Cal Newport

A text editor commonly used by developers, mentioned in the context of life hacking and plain text productivity.

James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126

Lex Fridman

A powerful text editor, originally a collection of macros for TECO, which James Gosling reimplemented in C at CMU for UNIX.

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman

A text editor mentioned as being roughly contemporary with Vi, but Brian Kernighan has never internalized its use.

It's Time To Uninstall And Improve Your Life | Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367

Lex Fridman

A text editor highly extensible and customizable, mentioned as Lex Fridman's long-time preferred editor before switching to VS Code with Copilot.

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman

A highly extensible text editor favored by Guido van Rossum for its comfort and speed, described as a spiritual predecessor to VS Code.

Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation | Lex Fridman Podcast #307

Lex Fridman

A text editor that Lex Fridman uses, highlighting its long history and customization capabilities in Lisp.

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

Lex Fridman

A text editor mentioned by Lex Fridman as his preference, implicitly contrasted with VS Code.

Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250

Lex Fridman

A family of text editors known for their extensibility. Lex Fridman proudly uses Emacs as part of his programming setup.

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Lex Fridman

A highly extensible and customizable text editor, favored by Travis Oliphant for his programming work.

Work at a Startup Expo 2019

Y Combinator

Text editor where Jeff Ralston built his customer support system for a failed startup, noting it was a better product than the actual service offered.