From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:41:31 +0100 Message-ID: <45CBA71B.3030307@gmail.com> References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170974515 31645 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 22:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:41:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: EMACS List To: William Case Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 23:41:47 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 1HFHxb-0002cc-1O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFHxa-0000xo-LC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFHxQ-0000xZ-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFHxO-0000w4-QN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFHxO-0000w1-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFHxO-0007n9-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:63993 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFHxM-0003Dq-5K; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:41:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000712-1, 2007-02-08), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HFHxM-0003Dq-5K. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HFHxM-0003Dq-5K 563c2b01567a34ec4d4de0c8f5b12ce6 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:40984 Archived-At: William Case wrote: > Hi; > > What are all you people doing with emacs ? ... > 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. I started using Emacs because I got really tired of all different programs I had to learn to do all different kinds of programming, web authoring etc. It just took too much time learning all these different environments. Wasted time. Actually I felt I was just kind working for those companies that sold all these proprietary programming tools I used. Struggling with all the problems and constraints they had. Learning Emacs instead seem to be something that would be good in the long run. And beside that Emacs let me use my vi typing skills and that makes it quite a bit easier for me to do things quickly. So I try to use Emacs for most editing and writing. Though I am using Thunderbird as my mail client. I found it too hard to get any Emacs mail client working on MS Windows. The instructions unfortunately did not seem trustworthy for MS Windows and I depend on that my mail client works without problems.