From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Bokma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:58:54 -0600 Organization: Castle Amber Message-ID: <87tys9jn81.fsf@castleamber.com> References: <87sk7tqqc0.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272996760 1160 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:12:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:12:39 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Mbm-0005Af-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:12:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Mbl-0004OO-Ps for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:12:37 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net YBPdgW21Y3X3MHPuPMQLiwnI1jI3t1HU7h6HS9vUjB8pd45zDR Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cj0WFODH9bPwjkDu/iAnYrLYOQk= sha1:t128mS4zzjJpPC8UnsdUMXnKy/Y= X-Url: http://johnbokma.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177531 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:73025 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > Jeff Clough writes: > >> There are still things I leave Emacs for, such as surfing the web. My >> usage patterns for using things like Facebook, YouTube and a few forums >> make this much easier to do in a mouse and dedicated browser that Just >> Works. That said, 90% of my time is spent typing at an Emacs window. > > Yes, for heavily graphical web sites, Firefox is passable (too bad it > doesn't emacs key binding by default, I never took the time to configure > it so). But for most of my web browsing (ie. software documentation), > emacs-w3m is perfect. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141 maybe? I am going to try it because I've been bugged too often the past weeks by Firefox doing things 'wrong' (e.g. C-s doesn't do what I expect from it) -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development