Where can I find a video of a professional using Emacs?

Question

I want to see a video of somebody using Emacs really, really well. Not an instructional video, just something that shows off its raw power. I want to be dazzled.

The inspiration for this question is the following quote:

"You have to be way smart to use [Emacs] well, and it makes you incredibly powerful if you can master it. Go look over Paul Nordstrom's shoulder while he works sometime, if you don't believe me. It's a real eye-opener for someone who's used Visual Blub .NET-like IDEs their whole career."

Answer 1

This seems hard to find. This one was pretty good for showing a LISP programmer using SLIME in Emacs

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000054867

Watching Rich Hickey (self-proclaimed emacs noob write clojure in an Aquamacs on the mac was pretty cool) -- he runs clojure snippets from the editor.

http://blip.tv/file/707974/

(there are more on that site)

Here is someone else showing how to do that

http://blip.tv/file/1045010/

Admittedly, these are language specific -- and aren't exactly what you are looking for, but it's the best I have seen.

Answer 2

All the emacs videos I saw on youtube were painful to watch. And though I find emacs very natural to use, I would estimate emacs and vi to be roughly equivalent power. That said, here's a decent video of a vi user that knows what he's doing. Maybe that will give you a taste for using a real editor.

Answer 3

EmacsWiki has some links to screencasts that show some Emacs wizardry: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsScreencasts

The Slime video by Marco Baringer (linked on the EmacsWiki page) is excellent if you're interested in Lisp, and there's some great annotation of that video (which explains some of the keyboard shortcuts) here: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/reference-for-the-slimelispemacs-screencast/ - which is good for inspiration once you get started with Emacs.

If you're interested in Python, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMi-uN-6O1Q

Answer 4

A good screencast I found is here. Though its targeted towards Ruby but the some extensions he used come in handy for other languages too. Gives a good glimpse of whats possible with Emacs.