From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: 9 Feb 2007 09:26:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1171042016.496262.136420@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171042943 10184 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 17:42:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:42:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 09 18:42:16 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 1HFZlE-0007xC-Ee for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:42:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFZlE-00072J-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:42:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1171042023 12269 127.0.0.1 (9 Feb 2007 17:27:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:27:03 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145425 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:41030 Archived-At: On Feb 8, 3:45 pm, William Case wrote: > 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 use Emacs for many things, a short list would be:- * Editing, for general text and programming purposes * For compiling and interacting with interpreters * As a shell, using eshell * To browse documentation using Info and Man * As a file manager * As a Calculator But I don't use it for web-browsing or email, I use separate word- processors, spreadsheets etc. If I didn't interact with so many people who use Outlook I'd probably use it for email.