From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: 19 Jun 2012 16:17:56 GMT Message-ID: References: <87aa00wkrd.fsf@jidanni.org> <000c01cd4d83$adcde9a0$0969bce0$@rogers.com> <87vcine5kw.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340122817 21233 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2012 16:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 18:20:16 2012 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 1Sh1A5-0001AJ-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sh1A5-0005yR-D8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:20:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net uu9IfvKKecykJyxAOqY6ygA/RROnW2oweMB1TRrNqcMTD/tpAqUnGM2e1TJRCQs5Xs Cancel-Lock: sha1:zZm131mHWwokMHkTxihONIutPcY= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192912 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:85307 Archived-At: On 2012-06-19, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > usually run three: programming, erc, gnus. I probably would, but irssi is better than erc and slrn is better than gnus. I will use them up on my ubuntu netbook, it having no real developement base, but on my Slack box emacs is my primary editor, even for slrn. I try to learn something new about emacs every day, if only a key-stroke. When I have the time, I read emacs lisp tutorial. It's excellent and very well written. While I'm a rank amateur at emacs, I can't live without it. It's the first thing I install on any *nix box. nb -- vi --the heart of evil! Support labeling GMOs