Any lispers too?
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I have been using Emacs since the mid-1990s. I worked on the XEmacs fork for awhile. Hey, look at that, the web site still exists and I’m still mentioned there. I did a little bit of Lisp work for hire in the 1990s, too, but haven’t done anything serious with it for a couple of decades now. Man, I’m old.
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Wow. I discovered Linux in the mid 90’s. I was in 9th grade and spent my saved money on Redhat Linux 6 at Fry’s Electronics instead of a new game. When Installing it I had no idea what I was doing and selected the “Everything” option. It would install all the DEs, WMs, and services like Bind, Apache, Samba, etc. No wonder it would take 10 minutes to boot up. I joined an IRC server and everyone was like “You shouldn’t be doing stuff online as root” and I was like “pfft!! I know what I’m doing”
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Maybe I beat you both.
I was using RHL while it was still kernel 1.X (very early 90s)
I never liked emacs but still use VI (now vim). I did not like ed but love gedit and dislike nano. Goes to show that all of us have different tastes and preferences. 
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I’ve been using emacs since the 1980’s. I think I first encountered it on an ADM-3A CRT terminal connected to a Wicat M68000 Unix system. I have also used emacs “clones” on PC-DOS and MS-DOS (8086 Victor 9000/Sirius 1) and Apple M68000 systems.
I still use vi for quick edits of system configuration files with sudo or doas.
Hehe. When I started using Linux the kernel was like 2.2 I think. I’ve always used VI. I tried Emacs a few times and would get so lost in it.
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Emacs is a great OS and nice Lisp engine, but I am missing a good editor 
That said, vi vi vi
Somewhat related is the bash command editing mode, which can be either emacs or vi. By default the editing mode is emacs, so if you are familiar with the emacs commands you would be right at home.
If you add the line set editing-mode vi at the start of /etc/inputrc you get vi style key binding including using the escape key to end insert mode.
set -o vi
…which is the first thing I do, as vi’s word movements (W or cW or dW) are more efficient on commands that-have-punctuation-characters-in-it, as emacs’ M-f and friends stop at punctuation (as does vi’s w, cw, or dw).
So you don’t set set editing-mode vi which you can do once and don’t need set -o vi every time you start a terminal shell.
I have it in my .bashrc. But thanks for the inputrc (should also work on $HOME/.inputrc) hint, as this will also affect any other tool that is using readline.
Use Emacs as a daily driver, and use EXVM as my window manager. Works great, especially on resource constrained systems combined with Emacs native compilation.
Reminds me of stumpWM and ratpoison.
Been using Emacs for about 15 years. I use vim too (mainly because those I worked with preferred it, and it being on the servers by default). Love me some Emacs.
I’ve been using Emacs and Xemacs for a long time…predates Linux!!
I feel like a Mod should move this to The Water Cooler
From Ask Fedora to The Water Cooler
Learned Lisp in the mid-70s at UMass-Amhetst via The Little Lisper. Built robot simulations with Lisp and SNOBOL. Lisp remains my all time fav language. car/cdr/cons/eq/atm… I still remember that Lisp Mantra to this day! Tx for the memories!
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Been using Emacs (and later XEmacs) in the 90s.
Learnt Lisp & Scheme during my studies. At that time we were using Unix terminals and later Solaris workstations. I continued to use Emacs on Linux (Yggdrasil Linux, Slackware & Debian floppy disks installations) but at work I had no choice but using Vi.
Emacs keybindings are great : still use it when doing some Shell stuff …
Nowadays I’m still using Vi & VSCodium
Another Emacs user here, although I don’t get to use it enough at the moment.