From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Ferrari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:52:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376920376 3560 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 13:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 15:52:58 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 1VBPtC-0000n3-Lj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:52:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPtC-0004UF-CJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPsv-0004Hh-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPsu-0007ol-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::233]:55170) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBPsu-0007oV-Bm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id t57so3900256wes.10 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:52:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Fr8MiUM5U5zNEevl7nuLql/Sxln7a1Gc+wIKj++mq2Y=; b=QzDnsbpNefh7cLw69f8RrDO/wasu38vdhaAbzCgByzDbpmBIsTX/rXwxcBVvKG7KxM pFCMiCzauvHefhLVDG7P7CnuRfq1R34m5NF7brFne+mpN4zLGgULCOUnbGYjwduiU8LC +LrrZW9vxNdrT8VcgljQ7/DDIccGo/Abo0kLdiabx4VJMka5j+zSJfLA7X+xCUA4VtZC YiGnU2HOWDzRue3EoX/XGYAFbM5LqYjzxRGnpeTAkWOaBBA0CP7TVD4ANTakjQOIyGuC QYCzZ/A4RnapV+DSwsJ5mFHG2AqWdgWmaacPmjD8OnjQCGuwmKfEEjfHkqXDxrheEGOG Mivw== X-Received: by 10.180.185.146 with SMTP id fc18mr8463205wic.44.1376920359506; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.157.194 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:52:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: Q4ES15x74VEs5v5Oh_Dhbagp1zo X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::233 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:92987 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. What are the best uses of Emacs? Don't know what is the "best" but my usage of emacs ranges from editing source code (not Java, for that I hate to say I prefer an IDE) and configuration files. I use it to edit documents, mainly in org mode, and to manage some todos. Let's say I use Emacs for any application I don't have a better application/editor. > What is Emacs really good for? Interpreting elisp. > Is it a good personal information manager? I think it is, as well as unix tools and text files are. > Can you manage your information (todo, grocery list, etc.) and sync with a > smartphone? My smartphone is not smart enough to sync with emacs. > Is Emacs adapting well to the changing computing landscape? I believe it is, since Emacs pretty much remains the same (I mean, with the same user interface), that is very important in a world that changes. After all, why use Emacs for reading mails, edit source files and the others? Because you can have all you keybings doing almost the same in the environment. You don't need to learn another program for each task, just a few keybindings into the same environment. This is very important to me. With regard to the Google integration of Emacs I don't have experience, since I usually work behind a proxy and that is quite nasty to setup with Emacs (in my opinion). By the way, I would love to have Emacs integrating with google platform, I hate the web interface. But to be honest, I believe this will hardly happen: after all you have to buy google products to work with google stuff.... Luca