Someone posted a pointer to this old item on BoingBoing about the movie TRON: Legacy and Emacs. Most Irreal readers have probably heard the story by now but it’s a nice piece of Emacs arcana that’s worth reposting for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
The piece is mostly a quote from JT Nimoy in which he describes how he settled on using Emacs for one of the scenes and how he shepherded the scene through the production process to make sure that artistic license wasn’t used to destroy its technical feasibility.
It’s a cute story and worth taking a look at if you haven’t seen it before. And it turns out that Nimoy used Emacs in real life, a fact that somehow makes the story even better.