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endgame on June 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End

I also came here to talk about emacs. Two of the things that I think made it this way:

* Scripts such as keywiz let you incrementally improve your knowledge.

* Having a REPL in scratch means you can interactively tweak things.

jrockway on June 25, 2011 | [–]

Having a REPL in scratch means you can interactively tweak things.

IELM is more of a proper REPL, however.

ZackOfAllTrades on June 27, 2011 | [–]

Keywiz made me realize I know absolutely nothing about emacs.

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