From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:33:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87ps8kzh9h.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170956495 27594 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 17:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:41:35 +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 Feb 08 18:41:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFDGx-0003Jk-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:41:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFDGx-00026X-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:41:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-X-Trace: individual.net IeV07Y5qRQhNoeB1G983LAY0JqWm7iwUa9StUHo3DKQcoexY+r X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:irfdaKEcCdFFaMVI98u7+AqtHxA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145366 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40972 Archived-At: William Case writes: > Hi; > > What are all you people doing with emacs ? > > I took an early retirement and now spend most of my time in a nicely > fixed up den or office in the basement, on my computer using Fedora Core > 6. I am learning and exploring computers more and more every day. I > love it; I have come to firmly believe computers should be for the older > and not the young. > > The point of my question is I use emacs to write an occasional bash > script or a small C program. I screw around with beginners level lisp > and watch things not work. But as I read the posts on the mailing list > it is obvious emacs is being used for much much more. Sometimes it > seems it has replaced the Gnome or KDE desktop. Outside of programming, > I am having trouble imagining why people would use it. Do you use it > full screen all the time; only in a terminal or a virtual terminal? Is > it the only program you have running at start up with everything else > being done by command line? > > I ask here because none of my friends have any idea what I am talking > about. > > This is a casual chatty question not to be taken too seriously, but if > some of you are taking a break from your real work, I would be really > interested in knowing just what people really do with it. Emacs I > mean. email and news : gnus, sendmail, pgg irc : erc task organization : planner & muse html : html-helper web publishing : ftp programming : cc-mode, c-scope, etags, ecb, semantic debugging : gdb Why? because you dont really need GUI for any of that : and its great to have everything you use regularly tied in to the same system with concistent key bindings and "approach". emacs takes some getting used to but when you start to get used to it, you being to wonder why you would ever use a GUI desktop. I have a little project lined up where finally I will learn some elisp. And, as an added bonus, emacs has a great, friendly community.