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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: What are Emacs best uses?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:43:34 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50f8aa45-a07f-4846-b4a3-28d5cb4bb5c2@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9klygil.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk>

> > What is Emacs really good for?
> 
> It's a jack of all trades.

Emacs is a hack for all decades.

Its learning curve has steep grades, glissades, cascades, and everglades.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12 17:05 What are Emacs best uses? Jorge
2013-08-12 18:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-08-13  4:04 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-08-17 14:11   ` Jorge
2013-08-17 20:20     ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-08-18 10:31       ` Jorge
2013-08-19 11:09         ` Phillip Lord
2013-08-19 20:21         ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-08-19  2:46     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-08-13 11:30 ` Phillip Lord
2013-08-13 14:43   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-08-13 16:05 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-08-14  8:21   ` Thomas Shannon
2013-08-15 14:41     ` W. Greenhouse
2013-08-16  9:49       ` Thomas Shannon
2013-08-14 14:51 ` Ken Goldman
2013-08-14 19:04 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2013-08-19 13:52 ` Luca Ferrari
     [not found] ` <mailman.340.1376920365.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-19 14:04   ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-19 14:35     ` Luca Ferrari
     [not found]     ` <mailman.342.1376922920.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-20  8:25       ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-20 10:56         ` Luca Ferrari
     [not found]         ` <mailman.401.1376996210.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-20 12:44           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-21  1:58       ` Jason Rumney
2013-08-21  6:25         ` Luca Ferrari
     [not found] <mailman.3062.1376327401.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-12 18:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-12 18:45   ` Andreas Röhler
2013-08-13 13:34   ` Joe Corneli
2013-08-13  1:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-13  3:29 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-13 11:52 ` Dan Espen
2013-08-13 12:27   ` Filipp Gunbin
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3116.1376396894.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-13 12:33     ` Dan Espen

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