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Legendary programmers don’t become legendary because of their text editors but because of the code that they write.

Linus Torvalds has used a janky version of micro Emacs that he picked up as a university student in Finland.[1] Will it make you a better programmer if you switch to his editor? No. Just use whatever you are comfortable with, like he has. He has used this editor because he got used to its peculiar keybindings. He rather worked on the kernel than to learn new keybindings.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs

He doesn't. Linus uses MicroEMACS [0], which is an entirely different editor that uses emacs bindings.

It's not the lisp vm that incidentally happens to edit code that GNU Emacs is.

Or, as he puts it [1]:

> I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar.

[0]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs [1]: https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...

He said he might switch to nano. It's not currently his editor of choice (unless there's something more recent). If I recall correctly he has been using uEmacs/PK (https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs).

> I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'.

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...

Maybe uEmacs source[0] will help? Torvalds still uses it according to his last interview..

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs

Linus has his own port of the venerable MicroEmacs[1]. As does Walter Bright[2], by the way.

qemacs is actually quite advanced, and even includes a basic HTML renderer (for the help). I was half joking that with quickjs, one now can make a reasonably modern web browser out of bellard-ware…

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs

[2]: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

He uses his own fork of microemacs: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs

Or at least he used to.