From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Rauchenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:28:16 +0100 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 1171096186 24741 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 08:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:29:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 09:29:39 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 1HFnc1-0006vy-F9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:29:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnc0-00053L-R8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:29:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnbm-00050z-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnbj-0004wk-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnbj-0004wX-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:29:19 -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 1HFnbj-0000Ca-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HFnba-0003FX-JL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: from 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at ([83.215.41.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:29:10 +0100 Original-Received: from its.sec by 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:29:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F63T2EnbpNZATBQEf39gFJDSs8I= 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:41053 Archived-At: William Case writes: > Hi; > > What are all you people doing with emacs ? I started using Emacs a few months ago. When I first tried it 2 years ago or so I didn't find my way around at all, so this time I thought I would force myself using it, so I switched my email to Gnus (used Sylpheed before that). Gnus is just fantastic, before that I never really used Usenet, but now I read various groups (and I unsubscribed from various mailinglists and switched to Gmane). A little bit later I started using Erc for IRC. Before that I used weechat or irssi. At the beginning I found using it weird, because I didn't really get the buffer-management at the time (switching to Gnus for instance destroyed my carefully setup window-layout). Other than that I use Emacs for programming. One of the killer features for me is the integrated documentation. Nearly every function is documented, and when browsing through the info-manual, one often finds new and interesting things. The Emacswiki is also a fountain of knowledge (its search sucks, though). My .emacs is like entropy, it only gets larger, and never smaller ;-) Tom -- Pet piglet. Don't forget to play Car Bomb. Your abode will be fluctuating in the next 4 or 9 months. Adjust your girdle with the help of the mailman. You'll never be confused. Your lucky number today is 29842924728. Look for it everywhere.