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Oh wow, there are schools that introduce these tools?

I know that every SE degree includes a course on practices in which they go over version control, some diff tools, etc. but I wasn't aware of a school teaching vim/emacs. May I ask which school it is that is doing this?

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When I was an undergrad, we were "taught" tools like Emacs and Vim by being dropped into a systems programming class where we were told to telnet into a university server to complete the assignments, and "oh, you'll need an editor. I think Emacs and vi are there. You'll figure it out."

UCLA did, in its 35L class. You are required to do a series of text editing tasks and record keystrokes.

I should note that the professor, Paul Eggert, is the maintainer of many GNU projects.

Berkeley 'taught' emacs in 61A when it used SICP and we programmed in Scheme, taught being in lower case here, italicized and in quotation marks. The idea that a university course would teach an editor is a bit much. I think there was a cheat sheet passed out by the TAs in section. My point is that this was at Berkeley where vi originated 40+ years ago.

At uni, that was what we were taught. On FreeBSD desktop-machines no less.

But that was 15 years ago. I have no idea what they teach now.

Not OP, but UC San Diego taught both Vim and Emacs when I was there 5 years ago

ENSEIRB-MATMECA, a french engineering school

> ENSEIRB-MATMECA

Are you sure that's actual French?

pretty much :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_sup%C3%A9...

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