From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Case Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:45:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170951180 4946 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 16:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:13:00 +0000 (UTC) To: EMACS List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 17:12:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFBtB-00043T-Gt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:12:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFBtA-0007qs-Rz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFBsy-0007nX-BY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFBsw-0007m5-Rw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFBsw-0007lt-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.225.205]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HFBsw-0001Ij-ED for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 7791 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 15:45:54 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=XTActFowByaRLAHgIOMeNQKs2ZzKQVSA/gAIIXLa61ESld2WjYc3wBi0ED6jsZ+CxrrwrEjxSBIh4oYndEXdHVkX+RLqpimYdfXEXO0zJ883t/4MJlc4fn2x9wPxUYdzJQJwrBKwjbT9BVje1pc0UdpQyfn7+/QZlaUCRGVX5jo= ; Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.3?) (billlinux@rogers.com@74.104.100.126 with plain) by smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 15:45:54 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 4gAcVoYVM1kyaifmAVqtxEpcGBeqC2gdoQ.DJSgHjr4YAqBBb_qaPfuXxXAywhZSjw-- X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) X-detected-kernel: Windows XP SP1+, 2000 SP4 (3) X-Greylist: delayed 1599 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:34 EST X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40963 Archived-At: Hi; What are all you people doing with emacs ? I took an early retirement and now spend most of my time in a nicely fixed up den or office in the basement, on my computer using Fedora Core 6. I am learning and exploring computers more and more every day. I love it; I have come to firmly believe computers should be for the older and not the young. The point of my question is I use emacs to write an occasional bash script or a small C program. I screw around with beginners level lisp and watch things not work. But as I read the posts on the mailing list it is obvious emacs is being used for much much more. Sometimes it seems it has replaced the Gnome or KDE desktop. Outside of programming, I am having trouble imagining why people would use it. Do you use it full screen all the time; only in a terminal or a virtual terminal? Is it the only program you have running at start up with everything else being done by command line? I ask here because none of my friends have any idea what I am talking about. This is a casual chatty question not to be taken too seriously, but if some of you are taking a break from your real work, I would be really interested in knowing just what people really do with it. Emacs I mean. -- Regards Bill