From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:30:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9klygil.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376393469 16991 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 11:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:31:09 +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 Tue Aug 13 13:31:11 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 1V9Cof-0006up-Na for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:31:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Cof-00057i-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9CoP-0004vk-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9CoJ-0001r5-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:41664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9CoJ-0001qN-Af for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1V9CoE-0005oD-Ci; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:30:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (zerg32.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.65.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r7DBUg3J012162 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:30:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Jorge's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:05:18 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 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:92835 Archived-At: Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes: > Hi. What are the best uses of Emacs? > What is Emacs really good for? Is it a good personal information manager? It's a jack of all trades. I can manage my personal information, and write code. and web pages, and interact with a versioning system. All the knowledge and muscle memory that I learn from one task cuts across to another. There are many tasks for which it is not the best tool -- I still use it to write Java, when Eclipse is better. But, it's good enough, and I don't have to relearn everything which happens in eclipse. And it's easy to extend; there are some rare syntaxes that I use, and I want support. Adding this to emacs is easy, and on the fly. Phil