Emacs Love Tale by sdp
I've thought about writing a blog post trying to capture the magic of Emacs.<p>By "magic" I really just mean having a super low barrier to having your code running and working in Emacs. You just open your config files, put in a line of code, and then you're done.<p>Of course there are other barriers - Emacs has a huge learning curve and Elisp is harder to learn if you aren't familiar with Lisp like languages.<p>Still, there are no other programs out there like Emacs. You always have to either create your own extension, modify the source code, etc.<p>Realizing that you could kinda just make whatever you'd like in Emacs is an amazing feeling. I don't even use Emacs as my primary editor at work and I still think about cool things I could hack in my config files.