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break out that emacs 

Popularized by Mark Zuckerberg in his blog and the motion picture "The Social Network." Anytime you use emacs. Hell, anytime you use any text editor. You know what? Whenever you're on a computer, doing anything at all.
Time to break out that emacs and edit that file.
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The best text-editor of all times. Even better than Vi. Millions of features, and entirely customisable. Not this long to load that Vi-fans would say. Emacs is available on almost every unix based system you can imagine, and also on Windows. With its tons of keyboard shortcuts and key bindings (also customisable), you will produce code faster you you have ever done
Vi is the only text editor I know in which you have to type commands to insert text...
emacs by jeremy__ June 5, 2005
"eight megabytes almost continuously swapping"

Huge text editor in unix, long to load but powerfull and apreciated by a large group of programmers. But Vi is faster ans better ... Also known as xemacs with graphics stuff.
I had that file to be edited, didn't have time to open emacs so I started Vi.
emacs by FinFiNeau March 15, 2005

GNU eMacs 

A mysterious program used for causing carpal tunnel syndrome.
GNU eMacs is Generally Never Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists.
The cheapest god-dam high school this side of the Atlantc.
A) Hey sexy, where do you go to school?
B) EMHS
A) Oh, fwapp
emhs by bo diddley October 20, 2003
I checked @elonmusksjet IG to get today's EMACs
EMACs by sl33v3 September 8, 2023