&gt; <i>You guys are kids. I used MINCE (Mince is Not Complete EMACS) in 1981.</i><p>If we&#x27;re going to get into I-can-top-that territory here &lt;g&gt;, I used some version of Emacs and Brian Reid&#x27;s SCRIBE on a DEC-20 machine in 1980-82.  (I was a law student; the AI guys at UT Austin&#x27;s CS department let me have an account to experiment with word processing for the law review -- a grateful shout-out to Dr. Mabry Tyson, a grad student at the time, if by chance he reads this.) Then The Final Word [1] on a Compaq PC clone to do camera-ready copy for my first book.  At my law firm I wrote an Emacs keyboard emulator for Word Perfect for MS-DOS (and posted it on CompuServe), then another one for Microsoft Word for Windows.<p>&lt;&#x2F;obnoxious&gt;<p>Now if I could only do more than pitiful coconut-headphone programming in Emacs Lisp ....<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;d9MaKH" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;d9MaKH</a> (Google Books archive of 1983 review in PC Magazine)