Emacs appearances in pop culture
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- #pop culture sightings
- #text editor appearances
- #Emacs references
- The Social Network (2010) shows Zuckerberg using Emacs and Perl to scrape photos for Facemash.
- Tron: Legacy (2010) features Emacs' eshell to grep and kill a system process.
- Arctic Blast (2010) displays Emacs Lisp code during a data recovery scene.
- Silicon Valley (2014-2019) references the editor war between Emacs and Vim in a debate over indentation.
- The Hacker Files (1992-1993) DC comic mentions Emacs in a hacking context.
- Osama-tachi no Viking manga uses Emacs Lisp with pcase and seq-map for hacking.
- Key the Metal Idol (1994-1996) anime shows Emacs Lisp with save-excursion and set-buffer.
- The Internship (2013) includes a joke about using Emacs as Ubuntu's default editor.
- Aldnoah.Zero anime depicts a pilot debugging a .emacs file during a mecha fight.
- AlphaGo documentary shows a DeepMind engineer programming Lua in Emacs.
- How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) Netflix series has a debate about Emacs vs. Vi.
- A Murder at the End of the World miniseries uses "Are you Vi or Emacs?" as a hacker test.
- Polish movie Haker (2002) suggests using Emacs through sendmail for hacking.
- xkcd comic and Neal Stephenson's essay are honorable mentions praising Emacs.
- List of famous Emacs users includes Donald Knuth, Guido van Rossum, and others.