Emacs appearances in pop culture

▲ Emacs appearances in pop culture(ianyepan.github.io)

176 points by ggcr a day ago | 29 comments

▲ messh a minute ago | parent | next [-]

now someone do a "VIM appearances in pop culture" :)

▲ TeaVMFan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not exactly an appearance, but I definitely give emacs a shout-out in the end notes of my new novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX

	▲	mck- an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That’s funny, I launched a startup novel three days ago [1] where I also referenced emacs in one of the scenes [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447484
	▲	nickla an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Amazon! Are you selling an e-book? I couldn't access the site. I wouldn't buy from them anyway as I am sure they require DRM. I don't buy DRM.

▲ ge96 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How to sell drugs online fast was a great show because they kept stressing how they had to have the test pass in their Vue front end.

I always whenever I see code on a show/movie I wonder if it's real, a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.

Also recently watched Nirvana 1997 really good.

▲ xoxxala 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The T-800s HUD scene in the first Terminator used 6502 assembly from Nibble magazine.

https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...

▲ noir_lord an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Replicator code in Star Gate was iirc (it’s been a good while) the html/js for the royal bank of Canada (appropriate since it was mostly filmed in Canada).

	▲	ge96 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		now that's cool, the OG star gate movie? I watched SG-1 multiple times and watched the other ones too, too bad about the reboot being cancelled.

▲ bigmattystyles 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Like that time Kelly Rowland sent Nelly a text using excel https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1b8xawt/kel...

	▲	jgrahamc 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It was 100% not Excel: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/07/unfortunately-kelly-rowland-cou... Also, we're really close to the 24 year anniversary of "Dilemma": https://hollawhenyougetthis.com
	▲	ge96 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Which is pretty funny like was that a picture or actually running excel

▲ dhosek 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One of the great onscreen code moments was in Superman III¹ where Richard Pryors’ character has written some “impossible” program and when the listing is shown on screen it’s pretty much five screens of BASIC REM statements.

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1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.

	▲	teddyh 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		5 CLS 10 PRINT "PLOT BILATERAL CO-ORDINATES" 15 PRINT : PRINT 20 GOSUB 5000 25 PRINT "INPUT CO-ORDINATE X : " 31 PRINT "4"; 33 PRINT "2"; 35 PRINT "Y" : PRINT 40 PRINT "INPUT CO-ORDINATE Y : " 41 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 41 : IF 42 PRINT "Z"; 43 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 43 : IF 44 PRINT "+"; 45 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 45 : IF 46 PRINT "X" 47 GOSUB 5000 50 CLS 60 PRINT "0010 N = RND(900)" 70 PRINT "0020 Z = 1 TO N" 80 PRINT "0030 X = 1 TO 31" 90 PRINT "0040 Y = 1 TO 15" 100 PRINT "0050 SET(31-X,16-Y,Z)TO(31+X,Y," 110 PRINT "0060 SET(31+X,Y,Z)TO(31-X,16-Y," 120 PRINT "0070 SET(X,16+Y,Z-Y)TO(X,Y,Z)" 130 PRINT "0080 SET(X,16-Y,Z+Y)TO(16+X,Y+)" 140 PRINT "0090 GOTO 500" 150 PRINT "0100 NEXT X:NEXT Y:NEXT Z 160 PRINT "0110 CLS" 170 PRINT "0120 DATA 1.13.2.67.2." 180 PRINT "0130 DATA 12.45.90.3.23.56.2.56" 190 PRINT "0140 DATA 3.6.1.43.92.56.2.9.08" 200 PRINT "0150 DIM P(9)" 210 PRINT "0160 B$ = CHR$(191)" 220 PRINT "0170 FOR X = Y - Z : PRINT X" 230 PRINT "0180 FOR Y = X - Z : PRINT Y" 240 PRINT "0190 END" 250 PRINT 260 PRINT 270 PRINT 280 PRINT 290 PRINT 300 PRINT 310 PRINT 320 PRINT 330 PRINT 340 PRINT 350 PRINT
	▲	jgrahamc 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		More great on screen code moments (I haven't got round to Superman III, yet): https://behind-the-screens.tv But Superman III is not just REM statements.

▲ cgag 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I paused a bunch of times and I forget the details, but I remember everything always looking good, especially his brainstorming about the site and making notes about pgp and onion services and the like.

I also loved them knowing Lenny wrote some code, as he was the only person in the world who uses snake case in javascript, because I’m also a snake case heretic.

▲ thesuitonym 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.

And sometimes it's just a directory listing.

▲ drob518 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> In a scene (Season 3, Episode 6) where protagonist Richard is coding with his new girlfriend Winnie at her apartment (okay, yeah… that’s not how all software engineers date, whatever the outside world may think), the two clash over the use of spaces versus tabs. Richard, a stubborn advocate of the tab character for indentation, argues: “I mean I do not get why anyone would use spaces over tabs. I mean, why not just use Vim over Emacs?” To which Winnie replies, “I do use Vim over Emacs.” Richard then breaks down, yelling, “Oh, God help us!”

Gotta admit that I use Emacs and favor spaces over tabs. And K&R braces. And you’re wrong if you make any other choice.

▲ tdubey 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png

▲ zingar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Enjoyable list but I’m not sure the AlphaGo documentary counts as pop culture :).

It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.

▲ dleslie 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cryptonomicon has the use of a highly custom version of Emacs called OrdoEmacs.

https://dev.to/hyenast2/neal-stephenson-s-cryptonomicon-and-...

▲ DonHopkins an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a cat named Emacs.

▲ DonHopkins an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo

Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

Writing an Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs) | James Gosling and Lex Fridman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7aB-oxjVc

▲ laidoffamazon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was hoping for Pantheon too (I’m 90% sure Holstrom uses EMacs instead of Vim?)

	▲	nico 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Amazing show btw, highly recommend it

▲ worik an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is some trainspotting I can identify with!

▲ guidoschmidt 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bonus points for silicon valley doubling the Emacs references with vim AND spaces vs tabs

▲ itrunsdoomguy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Time for an elisp port of Doom

▲ herodoturtle 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That TRON theme linked in the article is cool, thanks for sharing.

At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?

	▲	hsbauauvhabzb 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There’s aren’t that hard to make, rip the palette and vibecoding a theme is viable.