From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and Lynx Browser
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 01:00:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ndsrniw.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.343.1369435210.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) writes:
> You probably mean the green-white one published by O'Reilly?
Yes.
> Interestingly, there are comparatively few Emacs books around, which
> is surprising given the stellar respectability the program has
> earned, and its versatility. (Compare that to the number of Perl
> books around - it's striking, isn't it?
It is *stupid*. When I applied to jobs as a programmer some time ago,
I always got the same moronic question, from people who knew nothing
of computers: "What programming languages do you know?" I tried to
answer that all programming is the same; what matters is your command
of *tools*. This never landed. And this imbalance in understanding is
reflected in the book market. I've never seen a book on irssi, on zsh,
on the man pages (groff etc.), and so on. But I've seen countless of
"OO Programming in Java". I don't get it; probably there is some
commercial thing behind it, as usual. But, instead of complaining, we
should start writing ourselves... DIY.
> The nice thing about the O'Reilly book is that it does a modest
> amount of advertising Emacs. I still remember one thing they kept
> mentioning: That it was integration that made Emacs so interesting.
Yes, but they don't mention two things: Gnus, and rmail. They don't
mention mail at all. That's such a huge part of everyday typing and
they "disintegrate" it without a blink of the eye. Otherwise, the book
is good, I agree.
--
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
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internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573
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2013-05-15 14:37 ` Emacs and Lynx Browser Emanuel Berg
2013-05-16 12:34 ` Pascal c
2013-05-16 12:41 ` Mark Skilbeck
2013-05-16 12:54 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-05-17 9:35 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-05-24 6:42 ` Pascal c
[not found] ` <mailman.298.1369377779.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-24 19:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-05-24 22:40 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <mailman.343.1369435210.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-24 23:00 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-05-25 7:21 ` Emacs books (was: Emacs and Lynx Browser) Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <mailman.361.1369466476.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-25 9:32 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.25904.1368707682.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-16 13:53 ` Emacs and Lynx Browser Emanuel Berg
2013-05-15 7:51 Pascal c
2013-05-15 8:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-15 9:11 ` Jonathan Groll
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