Emacs appearances in pop culture

	Emacs appearances in pop culture(ianyepan.github.io)
	339 points by ggcr 2 days ago \| 96 comments
	tl;dr: An Emacs user catalogs sightings of the editor across pop culture, including The Social Network (Zuckerberg writing Perl for Facemash), Tron: Legacy (eshell grep/kill), Silicon Valley's tabs-vs-spaces fight, AlphaGo documentary, and various anime, manga, and comics. Several entries feature recognizable Emacs Lisp code (save-excursion, pcase, seq-map) on screen, with the editor war or hacking scenes serving as the usual narrative hook. The post also notes honorable mentions like xkcd #378's "M-x butterfly" and famous Emacs users including Knuth, van Rossum, and Torvalds.
	HN Discussion: ↑Adds additional Emacs sightings in literature and novels not covered by the article •Points out similar catalogs exist for other tools like Nmap in movies ~Notes that on-screen code/software in media is often fake or mismatched, like Audacity with Emacs overlaid ↓Questions whether certain entries like AlphaGo really qualify as pop culture •Shares personal Emacs-related anecdotes tangential to the article's catalog