From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50f8aa45-a07f-4846-b4a3-28d5cb4bb5c2@default> References: <87a9klygil.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376405045 24437 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 14:44:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:44:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 13 16:44:06 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9FpN-00007D-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:44:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9FpN-0002bW-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:44:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51539) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Fp5-0002bO-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Fow-0000IY-4h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:25475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Fov-0000II-UW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r7DEhZ7C012290 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:43:36 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7DEhZ9E029638 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:43:35 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt120.oracle.com (abhmt120.oracle.com [141.146.116.72]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7DEhZti029628 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:43:35 GMT In-Reply-To: <87a9klygil.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92841 Archived-At: > > What is Emacs really good for? >=20 > It's a jack of all trades. Emacs is a hack for all decades. Its learning curve has steep grades, glissades, cascades, and everglades.