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		jpmattia on July 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emacs GUI Library > Speaking of terminals, Emacs can actually run in a terminal! You can start it with emacs -nw and it will happily transform your terminal into Emacs. I love how this is written, as if there wasn't a time that running emacs in the terminal was the only way to run emacs.

erksa on July 11, 2023 | [–]

I'd imagine the average age of emacs users is younger than emacs itself at this point.

cmrdporcupine on July 11, 2023 | [–]

to be fair, I've been using emacs since 1992, and from about 1994 on-wards almost all of that usage was in an X windows session, unless I was doing something remote

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