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As a former Emacs advocate, I only use Emacs for org-mode and magit these days.

These are still the finest stay-organized and Git UI modules I've ever seen, respectively, and are still enough to make sure I have Emacs on every system I use.

For coding, I've gone over to VS Code (and sometimes Jetbrains).

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PrismCrystal 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I did some FOSS hacking as a teenager a quarter-century ago, so learned Emacs, but then ultimately chose a career unrelated to software development. I still use Emacs for anything and everything text-related: email (Gnus), RSS feeds (elfeed), org-mode where I write up both personal TODOs and serious academic research. The keyboard-driven interface is powerful and now muscle-memory. The in-built Lisp environment makes everything nicely extensible, but Emacs as an IDE, as something people have used to create general software projects, is something I rarely think about.

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BeetleB 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You use VSCode for coding, and Emacs for org and magit. What do you use for everything else? :-)

As a sibling comment pointed out, many, if not most, long term heavy Emacs users are not using it for coding.

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iLemming a day ago | parent [-]

> long term heavy Emacs users are not using it for coding.

That's not true. I have worked in number of teams where Emacs users were the majority. Most of them didn't use Org, some of them never used Magit, yet they've used it for coding.

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BeetleB 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> I have worked in number of teams where Emacs users were the majority.

If most Emacs users aren't using it for programming, don't you think it's silly to narrow pick SW professionals as your population to sample from?

	▲	iLemming 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, don't call my gang silly. They're not the ones who use Emacs for everything but coding, like some silly weirdos. :)