[emacs-berlin] Introduction

[Alex Shulgin]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026, 14:36 Alison Chaiken <alison at she-devel.com> wrote:

> Hello Emacsers,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Back in the 1980's, I had the famous spiral-bound emacs yellow book.
> I think that my former boyfriend still has my copy.
>
> 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.
>
Welcome to Berlin, from another newcomer, I guess? :)

I think it can be inspiring to exchange favorite features, so I'll add from
my side: editing in dired (including symlink targets!) and using
EDITOR=emacsclient in *shell*.


Cheers,
Alex
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