From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:00:36 -0500 Message-ID: <45CB5734.1090907@speakeasy.net> References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170954758 20179 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 17:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:12:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 18:12:36 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 1HFCos-0006BD-6v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFCoq-0002GA-G7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFCl4-0005D8-Cg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFCl2-0005AR-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFCl2-0005AH-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFCl1-0003fD-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 28052 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 17:01:30 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Feb 2007 17:01:29 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) In-Reply-To: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 OpenPGP: id=45796D04 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:40968 Archived-At: Congratulations on your early retirement. Wish I was there.... I've been using emacs for a long time-- somewhere around two decades. I've done a *lot* of programming and have tried to made something with elisp, but without the help of folks on this list, most of what I've tried hasn't worked out. So unless I've got tons of time on my hands (never) and go in with no expectation of success, I just modify existing elisp code. I do use emacs every day though. Except for when I pop into a file one time in the day for just a few minutes, I use emacs for creating C code, html docs, and flat ASCII files. I use diary-mode too, but that's only because there isn't a good linux app (that I know of) for keeping lots of appointments. I run a lot of other apps, so run emacs in its own window... most of the time I have more than one emacs window (aka frame) open at the same time. I tried a few times to use emacs for email, but the mail setup I have (four or five accounts using IMAPS and TLS) is just too complicated to set up in emacs. It's even too hairy for me to do in pine. It's a snap in Thunderbird though. Maybe someday.... Welcome to the list. Have fun. -- "The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way." -- Tao Te Ching On 02/08/2007 10:45 AM somebody named 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 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. >