<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hey Alison,<div><br></div><div>welcome to Berlin. I’m looking forward to meet you and hear a few stories you undoubtedly have to tell about these foundational moments in Emacs and CS history. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Diez </div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Mobile Mail. Excuse brevity. <div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Am 09.02.2026 um 14:40 schrieb Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com>:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<p>Hello Emacsers,</p>
<p>I relocated from Silicon Valley to Berlin at the end of last month and am looking forward to meeting new people. Ich kann auch Deutsch, aber angeblich nutze diese Liste Englisch.</p>
<p>I first used emacs in 1984 when I was a beginning graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where emacs was developed. In fact, when I was a student, I sometimes saw RMS on campus or somewhere nearby. I've spoken with him a few times in recent years, for example at the LibrePlanet gathering hosted by Free Software Foundation.</p>
<p>Back in the 1980's, I had the famous spiral-bound emacs yellow book. I think that my former boyfriend still has my copy.</p>
<p>My favorite emacs features are the rectangle-manipulation and register-related ones. I'm running version 30.1, which is what Debian Testing currently provides.</p>
<p>Enough for now,<br>Alison</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">---<br>Alison Chaiken <a href="mailto:alison@she-devel.com">alison@she-devel.com</a><br><a href="https://she-devel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://she-devel.com</a><br>"Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability." -- Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"</div>
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