From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why do you use emacs? Date: 11 May 2003 23:11:21 +0200 Organization: informatimago.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptmp429y.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052687682 25488 80.91.224.249 (11 May 2003 21:14:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 21:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 11 23:14:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ey9Y-0006cy-00 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 23:14:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EyAf-0003cu-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 May 2003 17:15:49 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!mtvwca1-snh1.ops.genuity.net!mtvwca1-snf1.ops.genuity.net!news.gtei.net!news.mainstreet.net!feedwest.aleron.net!aleron.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!thalassa.informatimago.COM!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 66 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: thalassa.informatimago.com (195.114.85.198) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052687490 21138948 195.114.85.198 (16 [41911]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113079 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9574 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9574 "Artur Hefczyc" writes: > Hello, > > I am currently working on emacs guide designed for > Java developers but not only. I would like to put one > section somewhere with title > "Why to use Emacs?" > My idea is to include there opinions from real emacs users. > > So my question is: Could you please send me the most > important reason for you why you use emacs instead of > other modern IDEs? Perhaps the best to understand _why_ I use emacs is to tell _what_ I do with it (including what features I've programmed into it): - of course, editing code, compiling, debugging, - but also composing email (and reading email), - composing newsgroup articles (and reading email), (and there already you get the advantage to have only one set of editing commands for various applications) - browsing the web when Java and pictures are not needed or are undesirable, or when HTML filtering is needed: I've got quite a HTML filter hook in w3-parse-hooks, if only Mozilla had something similar, alowing you to modify on the fly the HTML received before displaying it... - chatting with Kiwi (IRC), - managing my bank accounts (I've got functions to get the data from the web and format it like I want for my records), - managing my portfolio (retrieving quotes from the web, keeping a database of shares, etc), - computing a graph of CVS releases, - devise conversion (euro = frf = esp = dem = ...) with automatic update of the quotes from the web... - generating invoices, - encrypting / decrypting my emails and private files, - keeping track of the time I spend of the various projects I work on, - writting documentations and drawing ascii-art diagrams, - using it's shell mode to cover rustic programs with a nice readline library and other editing functions. and in general, Lisp programming and prototyping, and automatic code generation including menial tasks such as administrative comments and automatic time stamps. -- __Pascal_Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.