Spotting Emacs in the Wild

Emacs, one of computing's classic text editors, has made appearances across pop culture. Hackaday reports it was featured in The Social Network, where it was used to write a website-scraping script, and has also turned up in Tron Legacy, Arctic Blast, the TV comedy Silicon Valley, anime, comics, and various documentaries. A developer named Ian Y.E. Pan has been documenting these sightings, though many more likely exist.

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