From: Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>
To: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 00:32:24 -0400 [thread overview]
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I do. I use it mostly over ssh on supercomputers.. no need to forward X11
sessions and all that junk. I would say I never use emacs without the
terminal.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:
> The cool kids do it.
>
> You can find many screencasts of people doing everything in terminal
> and proselytising the simplicity and lack of distractions of such a work
> flow. They don't mention the lack of features, and the pitfalls.
>
> As a result a lot of the newbie questions on stackoverflow and here are
> "Why dozn't M-return work with me Emacs?" and "How comez when I can't
> cut'n'paste from Emacs?".
>
> This is frustratingly detrimental to Emacs adoption because the new user's
> initial experience with Emacs is "fixing" it.
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor?
>>
>> For me it's rather the other way around, I use the terminal within my
>> editor (eshell).
>>
>> Seems like there's no real point in supporting terminal-mode in a text
>> editor these days.
>>
>> -Steven
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Le
>
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2013-05-05 3:06 Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 3:58 ` Le Wang
2013-05-05 4:06 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:30 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-05 4:33 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 5:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 5:43 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 6:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-05 17:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-05-05 19:30 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 6:59 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-05-05 14:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 19:31 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 19:52 ` Mark Skilbeck
2013-05-05 4:32 ` Jai Dayal [this message]
2013-05-08 12:51 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-05 5:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 5:39 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:04 ` XeCycle
2013-05-05 4:13 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-05 4:17 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:36 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-05 5:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 4:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 4:39 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 4:41 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-05 8:29 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-05 5:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-05 5:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-09 11:50 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-05-05 6:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-05 8:21 ` eniotna
2013-05-06 10:20 ` Bastien
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2013-05-05 3:43 ` Chad Brown
2013-05-07 18:17 ` Cecil Westerhof
2013-05-08 2:30 ` Hugh Lawson
2013-05-08 9:35 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-05-08 15:53 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-08 20:51 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-05-08 21:08 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-22 11:01 ` Steinar Bang
2013-05-09 8:26 ` Peter Dyballa
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2013-05-08 23:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-09 8:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-05-09 8:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 13:39 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 15:26 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 15:35 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 18:50 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 18:58 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 19:01 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 19:09 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-09 19:04 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 19:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 19:27 ` Jai Dayal
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2013-05-09 19:09 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-09 21:08 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 4:01 ` PJ Weisberg
2013-05-11 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-11 14:45 ` Jai Dayal
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2013-05-09 21:58 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-09 16:00 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-05-09 16:02 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 16:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 16:25 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 16:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 16:46 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 17:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 17:11 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 17:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 17:50 ` Steven Degutis
2013-05-09 16:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-09 16:19 ` Hongxu Chen
2013-05-09 16:27 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 18:13 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-05-11 18:14 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 19:12 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.25563.1368296076.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-11 20:14 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-11 21:11 ` Jai Dayal
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2013-05-11 21:40 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-11 22:32 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-11 23:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-12 8:30 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-12 8:44 ` Hongxu Chen
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2013-05-12 19:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-12 20:00 ` Dan Espen
2013-05-12 20:53 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-12 21:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2013-05-12 22:40 ` Dan Espen
2013-05-13 1:23 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-12 20:52 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-13 5:58 ` Jonathan Groll
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2013-05-11 22:41 ` Jay Belanger
2013-05-12 0:04 ` Jai Dayal
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2013-05-12 0:09 ` Jay Belanger
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2013-05-12 14:07 ` Jay Belanger
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2013-05-09 13:43 ` notbob
2013-05-09 15:57 ` Jai Dayal
2013-05-09 16:53 ` Jay Belanger
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2013-05-08 16:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-08 19:49 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-09 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-09 2:48 ` Bob Proulx
2013-05-09 7:25 ` Jonathan Groll
2013-05-09 9:08 ` Tamas Papp
2013-05-05 10:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-05-06 3:31 ` Jason White
2013-05-06 9:52 ` ken
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2013-05-06 13:13 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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