Emacs - the Start of a Journey

A Work-in-Progress. Every editor I have used has held a version of me. The one who typed HTML by hand, the one who learned to build for the web, the one who wrote code for a living, and the one who now writes mostly words. Today, I am picking the editor that I hope will hold the rest of them. I started all the way back with HotDog from Sausage Software, when making a web page felt like magic and the editor was the wand. Then came the humble Windows Notepad, which taught me that you need nothing more than a blank page and patience. TextPad came next, and I cared about it enough to write syntax files for it. BBEdit, when I moved to the Mac and never looked back. Coda, which made the web feel like one well-designed room. And then, in 2008, Sublime Text, which has been home ever since. I have been a loyal, paying customer from the first year, and I have happily paid for every upgrade since, hoping that it helps the people who make it keep making it. Each one of them was the right editor…

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