From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolay Kudryavtsev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:04:55 +0400 Message-ID: <520BD4D7.2090308@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376507132 29854 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2013 19:05:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:05:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 21:05:34 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 1V9gNy-00087p-6V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9gNx-0002XI-MB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9gNc-0002Vy-I5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9gNU-00065Q-5T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::233]:50288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9gNT-00060j-VK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f179.google.com with SMTP id v1so7227991lbd.10 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:05:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=S3c/LRi7KyJHD05YM5dfVAHNr/7EWaAg3cTvPpxzuYc=; b=XXUN/MIdNWvZPBjYO0MSgfZSvhWF1bFQfj+bowt383AmmKcP/jBlCA3apaC/y9Q9fM qQGU6YAs5t8VCmduMNWwMOHOoXWRMGtOxiXV1AyxA8Ye4fpdNzxS53RpNfI0fIJrrv5u BblIyba86VJArQ+CWj8JwX2a4Lwp4jMm4ZCD3bseTIJRTzwpO0P4yyFp6HNweIz9EoHM uQiy9NZwCYGP3bWoePDkUTSu9E1qLMyyFQEObAQHIHB+VTCzVs8dJ0cgBj5rphrEuTQf M6gXKzkP3/EC/zrjWtVaeeXpaXbl0f2Nrn3lEdWgcXQvoOhs1gE0Rx4oxbntG245yr4h qt8g== X-Received: by 10.152.120.73 with SMTP id la9mr9700527lab.3.1376507102802; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ppp91-76-164-77.pppoe.mtu-net.ru. [91.76.164.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p17sm16413689lbv.11.2013.08.14.12.05.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:05:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130814-0, 14.08.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::233 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:92894 Archived-At: As quite a few people said before, Org mode is the killer feature of emacs nowadays. Tramp is another thing that should be mentioned. Now you can even do remote sudo with it. That makes Emacs perfect for certain Unix system administration tasks. With programming it's not as clear-cut. Some things are amazing, like vc, with it's support of so many back-ends and ability to work over tramp. Debugging on the other hand is usually way more painful, than it should be. > Is Emacs adapting well to the changing computing landscape? Yes and no. Emacs IMO has quite some troubles with adapting to certain current technologies. On the other hand it's way in the future. While in mainstream computing, users just use some prebuild and almost unchangeable product, in Emacs-land user is this divine being that has total control over it's environment. That's how computers should work. So Emacs is the first thing that adapted. -- Best Regards, Nikolay Kudryavtsev