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# Fanfare for the Common Emacs User
John Cummings

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Emacs enables Emacs developers to produce some very impressive and
useful things.  It can also inspire examination and discussion of
profound ideals.  But what about the everyday user who may not always
feel that they live up to these examples? What about the "dark matter"
of the Emacs universe? There's a lot of us out there, and we have an
important effect, but it may be hard to see it. What about life after
the EmacsConf inspiration has started to fade, and we find ourselves
working much the same way as we always have? In this
not-very-technical short reflection (perhaps just a personal
projection pep talk), I want to recognize and celebrate the experience
of these users.

Colored by my personal unremarkable usage of Emacs, I'll describe some
of the practices and "imperfections" that everyday Emacs users might
experience &#x2013; trying to create and remember keybindings, writing many
quick hacky functions to solve miscellaneous problems, trying to learn
more than we forget, half-implemented ideas, messy organic .emacs,
etc. I'll frame these positively, as a great way to use Emacs for our
own personal mundane needs, and a sign of our own dedication and
pragmatism. I'll opine on how Emacs is, conversely, a perfect platform
for this kind of usage in addition to highly-organized packages and
modes.



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