From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:24:35 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170951889 8030 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 16:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:24:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 17:24:42 2007 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 4.50) id 1HFC4f-000107-DK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFC4e-0004wd-TJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFC4T-0004wY-NG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFC4S-0004wM-9M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFC4S-0004wJ-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:24:28 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFC4R-0003c5-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:24:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HFC4D-00060g-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:24:13 +0100 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:24:13 +0100 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:24:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAGFBMVEUzRVhbQj4eZqO6SjnT eWpxnMetm5b6/PmidmqrAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1F B9cBBwMLBfKABCMAAAFoSURBVCjPtZI9a8MwEIaFoc7aYDdelQMna0Em3tsSr0XUeE2Q6a22a+v+ fk8fSSBkbDUI6dHpfe9OEvRgiD+ApqKPJgJeB6iUUXWESjUe/ig38AJrhqqvaU2nTIXbNvOQ40fe qdry4kyGoVWsfCQalXpHnJGM01wjWdYbMlXNFdsZDO69m9aqNqxEJqTEgbM5OF7wlEfIoll1Ked4 LbM5X2EdILLokEdmI8z7g5cKED0cuTC930TYhy7ZDekkXVGw/L60TguJePPxcJF48lpsSUWEA/Ju jGFNgJOXc4Hz7TmAdBeu5Ve4AEjOi2/2jfd3cAJZ+IbNrvdjgBZY01b+HTuG3cLws6BJZqVOj/pp T0OqVwx3rFq+QmJwx3loK5JSLEhDIt62+mtC2C+SrAUxEbV6C6v2BRbd6pILBKFpepKZJHgGgrKF sptSUUoczpwg2pQ7ZH1tgs0ou/917mzz6Cs2//C978cv5l07L02orIEAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: No Gnus v0.6, Emacs/22.0.93.6 (2007-02-08), Fedora 6 gnu/linux Cancel-Lock: sha1:heRdQ53tet0X+lz79KxIyGQK2JM= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:40964 Archived-At: On 2007-02-08, William Case said: > 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. Writing papers: AUCTeX Scientific computing: ess (R), maxima-el (maxima) Email: Gnus Contacts: BBDB IRC: Erc Personal information manager: Calendar/Diary + orgmode Browser: emacs-w3m RPN Calculator: Calc ............ -- Leo (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)