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I stumbled over [[https://blog.fugue.co/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html][a very nice article]] by [[https://blog.fugue.co/authors/josh.html][Josh Stella]] who wrote a
motivational and introductional article about [[id:tags-emacs][Emacs]] for
non-programmers, namely C-level managers.

Josh wrote quite some cool lines about this wonderful tool. I just
want to quote some of them to motivate you to read his blog posting.
Emphasizing is added by me.

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For those who haven't used Emacs, it's something you'll likely hate, but *may love*.
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Once you grok Emacs, you realize that it's a thermonuclear toaster
that can also serve as the engine for... well, *just about anything
you want to do with text*. When you think about how much *your
computing life revolves around text*, this is a rather bold statement.
Bold, but true.
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This may give the impression that Emacs is anachronistic or
old-fashioned. It's not. It's *powerful and timeless, but demands that
you patiently understand it* on its terms.
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To me, Emacs *feels like the future* rather than the past. [...] Emacs
persist as a useful tool when the latest trendy app is long forgotten.
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I no longer decide what app to use for this or that thing. Instead, *I
just work*. There is real power and efficiency to having a great tool
and committing to it.
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The third reason I find Emacs more advantageous than other
environments is that it's *easy to take all your stuff with you*. [...]
I've found this capability to be so useful that I dread dealing with
Pages, GDocs, Office, or other kinds of files and applications that
force me back into finding stuff somewhere on the filesystem or in the
cloud.
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Text files are the most *long-lived* format for computing. You easily
can open a text file from 1970 in Emacs. That's not so true for Office
applications. Text files are also nice and small - radically smaller
than Office application data files. As a digital pack rat and as
someone who makes lots of little notes as things pop into my head,
having *a simple, light, permanent collection of stuff that is always
available is important* to me.
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