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Neal Stephenson is missing from this list: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NealStephenson

Neal Stephenson is in the original list, but he is switched to Scrivener now. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-steph...

And Vernor Vinge (http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...).

Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs.

(And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-...)

Jack Chalker sited Framemaker and Borland Sprint as favorites because of their EMACS-like features: http://web.archive.org/web/19990819062835/http://jackchalker...

Sprint's a real member of the EMACS family tree but I don't know about Framemaker.

Yes I saw in the foreword/afterword in one of his recent books a credit for somebody helping him with Emacs Macros.

I was disappointed we didn't know what kind of macros they were.

Also, Ken Jennings writes his weekly trivia challenge in Emacs:

http://www.ken-jennings.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=12...

That's maybe not the ideal endorsement, though. Ken is a great guy, but having the trivia champion of the world saying he is an enthusiastic Emacs user... well, it doesn't improve Emacs' reputation as an editor for lovers of the esoteric.

Whitfield Diffie is also an Emacs user. I once sat behind him at an awards ceremony and was able to observe him hacking on Emacs lisp during the event. That was the highlight of my month.

Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!

What does hacking ON Emacs lisp mean? Does it mean working on Emacs's lisp interpreter's source? Or on some project written in Emacs lisp?

For me it means writing an .el extension.

Yes. After the event was over, I asked him what he had been working on, it was some code to identify what sort of buffer he had just opened (secure v. insecure, I don't remember the details)

I would call that hacking in Elisp, not on Elisp, which is why I asked.

Josh Nimoy, because he uses emacs and got it into Tron http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

Somehow missed that. I love how many geekster eggs were in that movie!

Eben Moglen is also not there - sure he's now a Stallman collaborator and involved with the FSF, but he is 'just' a lawyer and/or law professor - yet in one of his earliest contacts with RMS, he apparently already claimed to use emacs every day.

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