From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:45:10 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87hacgu0u8.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <878uy2b59p.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <9c485a2d-1e2a-4c38-b04a-db69db9b5bc2@googlegroups.com> <87r4btl8e5.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <87a9igcbht.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <20131012220155.GA20851@www> <8738o49kqv.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <87li1va56r.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bo2qe83m.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381974621 32734 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2013 01:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 01:50:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 17 03:50:25 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 1VWcjI-00034j-5k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWcjH-0006jA-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:50:23 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: /ZLK7EtDT1dvbkmVtWlLYw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Glal8uNO/KkhzEiErzmdA/rlbr0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201782 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:94051 Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: > I can see and ideally agree with Emanuel -- use only > the tool you are good at. However I find I live in a > world that does not always and exactly agree with me > and Ive to muddle on somehow or other. Point. Let me tell you, when I did my degree work they had me do *Microsoft Access 2003*! I haven't had such a negative computer experience since I played "Phantasmagoria" while under the influence. But, when I wrote my report about it, I wrote how much MS Access sucked and I even included a screenshot of Emacs as a counterpunch. I don't know if the supervisor felt guilty, but he didn't ask me to remove that whole chapter, which was what I expected. Begins - page 27, Emacs dump - page 31. (If you have read my posts here you have more or less read the article already.) That's Emacs in X, in a tabbed urxvt, by the way, which isn't standard but has to be setup - a Perl module, and then tweak looks in .Xresources, and shortcuts... - I remember all those details, but hardly what was the point of the entire degree project. http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/about/degree/x.pdf -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573