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Yeah. Which Linus uses, so probably works well enough for all non UI work whatsoever. Except maybe SQL?

He doesn't. Linus uses MicroEMACS [0], which is an entirely different editor that uses emacs bindings.

It's not the lisp vm that incidentally happens to edit code that GNU Emacs is.

Or, as he puts it [1]:

> I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar.