Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question?

[mkeller <mckellercran@gmail.com>]

Hi Will,

I find it cool that you're getting into emacs in your retirement years.
Speaks volume of who you are I think. What'd you do before retirement?

Anyway, I'm an emacs newbie (using it for abt 6 months), and use it for work
doing statistical genetics. For now, I solely use it as an interface for the
R statistical program. It has been great in this regard, but sometimes I get
frustrated as hell with it and want to foresake it all and go back to the R
gui (e.g., right now trying to figure out how to get the ediff thing to
work). But overall, I love the concept of open source software, and open
source journals for that matter, and I think emacs is great.

Matt



William Case wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Bill
> 
> 
> 
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