Emacs, how it all started (for me)

I have been using (_badly_) [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) since around 2008. In this short article, I will try to present the **chaotic path** that led me to choose Emacs as my main text and code editor. This is **absolutely not a tutorial**, but rather a small piece of my personal lore, because it is quite amusing to describe clumsy choices that, in hindsight, turned out to be, in…