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Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)

by @waxbanks waxbanks.wordpress.com published 2025-08-01

The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…

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