From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:52:29 -0500 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: References: <87mwmdfbt9.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381686914 25873 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2013 17:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:55:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 13 19:55:20 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 1VVPst-0003eB-D0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:55:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVPst-0005fn-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:55:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sL4mnjHv0liOr1cWQDeY8qhBjQ8= Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: afd8818b.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=lGe^lHZOKj3UH[0COH:iH0L?0kYOcDh@:`VaUdecCc09EXJFMHeKS0?G`^cI\5_bk>^aFNeIRjA]?B:F9Xl^6HL3HTmc0dn^hC0@_; AC_08l\8 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201729 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:93998 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Eric Brown writes: > >> I run on Mac, Windows, Linuxes, and OpenBSD--pretty >> much the same configuration files. >> heterogeneous environments. > > That's interesting. Why do you use all those systems? I > was "like that" when I always got computers from > everyone I knew, when I "found" them, etc. Then I was > under the incorrect impression that installing a Linux > distro was difficult or at least tedious. Now I do it > first thing, if you have a comic book or newspaper next > to you it is fine. Just like you, I try to keep portable > config files (not just for Emacs), which works "in > theory" :) No, that works to 85-95%, really. I also do > lots of stuff with ssh (but without X). First, I did > everything local and then scp the files, now I run Emacs > on the remote Solaris/SunOS with 99% identical > experience. I use a Mac 11-inch Air, because it fits in my man-purse and runs the various proprietary software that I can't live without (Citrix, Mathematica). I spend most of my time in Emacs and the terminal, but those proprietary apps (necessary for my earning a living) preclude me from using: My preferred OS is OpenBSD, which I run on an old laptop (my previous Macbook) as my home server/firewall. At work, I use CentOS as these are managed by the UNIX administrators and that is what they prefer. When I need a Linux, I use Debian GNU/Linux. Occasionally, I am involved in a special project that uses Windows 2008 as the server platform. I use Emacs Starter Kit (eschulte's version) as my base: then, I make use its convention of loading machine name and username .el files in order to customize for work vs. home and all machines. It's all tied together with git/gitolite. Generally, it is straightforward to supply different paths, etc. for different operating systems and machine peculiarities. I think that Emacs is a great way to unify my environment over radically different underlying architecures.