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From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
To: EMACS List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:45:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> (raw)

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.

-- 
Regards Bill

             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 15:45 William Case [this message]
2007-02-08 16:24 ` OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Leo
2007-02-08 16:51 ` CHENG Gao
2007-02-08 17:00 ` ken
2007-02-08 17:33   ` CHENG Gao
2007-02-12  0:51   ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-02-08 22:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-09 15:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 16:19     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-09 16:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 16:40         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-10  9:44           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 16:26     ` CHENG Gao
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4238.1171037993.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-09 18:25       ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-02-10  1:28         ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]         ` <mailman.4266.1171070942.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-10 11:46           ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-02-10 15:07             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-10 16:47       ` Tassilo Horn
2007-02-10 19:55         ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]         ` <mailman.4314.1171137338.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-10 23:53           ` Tassilo Horn
2007-02-11  0:54             ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]             ` <mailman.4328.1171155290.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-11  7:04               ` Hadron
2007-02-11 14:29                 ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4234.1171036785.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-09 17:58     ` Mathias Dahl
     [not found] ` <mailman.4193.1170953922.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-09 17:54   ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-11  9:07     ` CHENG Gao
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4331.1171184841.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-12  7:00       ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-12  9:14         ` CHENG Gao
     [not found]         ` <mailman.4376.1171271700.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-12 13:41           ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-10  2:37 ` mkeller
2007-02-10  8:28 ` Tom Rauchenwald
     [not found] <mailman.4182.1170951157.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-08 16:56 ` Tyler Smith
2007-02-08 17:27 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-02-08 23:47   ` thorne
2007-02-08 23:30     ` Joost Kremers
2007-02-08 23:48       ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-02-08 23:56         ` Joost Kremers
2007-02-11 12:02         ` Tim X
2007-02-11 15:20           ` William Case
2007-02-11 15:55             ` William Case
     [not found]             ` <mailman.4346.1171209373.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-11 21:23               ` Tim X
2007-02-11 11:53     ` Tim X
2007-02-08 17:33 ` Hadron
2007-02-08 21:28 ` Robert D. Crawford
2007-02-09  3:50 ` Rjjd
2007-02-09 17:26 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-10  9:53   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4289.1171101235.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-10 17:00     ` Galen Boyer
2007-02-11 12:13       ` Tim X
2007-02-12  8:29     ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-11 11:34 ` Tim X
2007-02-14  6:49 ` Edward Dodge

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