Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]

Kai Lentit · 1.7M views · 2023-06-10 · 8:50

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Overview

Kai Lentit's comedy sketch parodies a retro documentary interview with an Emacs enthusiast, joking about Emacs's endless configuration and devotion.

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Shared as a joke whenever Emacs obsession and configuration come up.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2023–2026

Topics

Satire & parody Testing, debugging & developer tools

What people said

palmotea · 2026-07 · Joke / meme
> This is so important. I've seen so many fellow technologists (and I've skated this myself) obsess about their setup to the point that they're spending more time on that than the actual thing they're building. [VIDEO]
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DonHopkins · 2026-06 · Joke / meme
Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs [LINK] Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized] [VIDEO] Writing an Emacs implementation in C (Gosling Emacs) | James Gosling and Lex Fridman [LINK]
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OhMeadhbh · 2026-04 · Joke / meme
I've been a fan of Kai Lentit ever since he accurately portrayed me (Emerald McS. et al, PhD) in my office at the University of Texas Instruments a while ago. [ [VIDEO] ] The sad thing is a) TI had an amazing LISP team in the 70s and 80s and b) while Emacs users are perhaps not that weird, we do get a little excited about the cool things we can do with our TEXT EDITOR .
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Video by Kai Lentit, played through YouTube.

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