From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:00:58 +0100 Message-ID: <868y926ot1.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <10pg1ivp03kqa69@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100602913 7754 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 11:01:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 12:01:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CU15j-0002Hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:01:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CU1ET-0004Mh-W4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CU1EF-0004MY-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:10:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CU1EE-0004MM-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:10:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CU1EE-0004MJ-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CU15E-0005DC-Pl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CU15E-0000JA-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:01:12 +0100 Original-Received: from ketchup.de.uu.net ([139.4.38.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:01:12 +0100 Original-Received: from kai by ketchup.de.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:01:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ketchup.de.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3HQT9x7hsg+jq9fmkAgj/8BmeKA= 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22045 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22045 Mike writes: > I know there are threads about creating an os with forth, lisp, perl, > etc., what about emacs? Not creating the os, but rather doing everything > from within emacs: mail, news, shells, browsing, etc. I know these > things all work, but what about using emacs as a 'way of life' sort > of thing? Currently, my job is to do Java programming. I use Emacs and JDEE (and CEDET, which is required by JDEE) for this. I use Gnus for mail and news reading. I use CPerl mode for Perl programming, when I need to hack Perl. I use AUCTeX for LaTeX document editing. I use nxml mode for XML documents of all kinds. I use eshell as a shell. (I also use xterm with screen and zsh for some tasks.) I like to use emacs-w3m for web browsing, but not all pages look acceptable with this, so I also use Firefox. But I configured JDEE to use emacs-w3m for showing the Javadoc help, and I like it. I tried to use ERC with bitlbee for chatting (IM) but that didn't work well enough for me. I don't use IM a lot, so perhaps that's why Gaim is better for me. But I can tell that for people who use IM a lot, the ERC/bitlbee combination is better. In the beginning, I didn't do all these things, but these just crept up with the years. Kai