Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> What are all you people doing with emacs ?
...
> 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.


I started using Emacs because I got really tired of all different 
programs I had to learn to do all different kinds of programming, web 
authoring etc. It just took too much time learning all these different 
environments. Wasted time.

Actually I felt I was just kind working for those companies that sold 
all these proprietary programming tools I used. Struggling with all the 
problems and constraints they had. Learning Emacs instead seem to be 
something that would be good in the long run.

And beside that Emacs let me use my vi typing skills and that makes it 
quite a bit easier for me to do things quickly.

So I try to use Emacs for most editing and writing. Though I am using 
Thunderbird as my mail client. I found it too hard to get any Emacs mail 
client working on MS Windows. The instructions unfortunately did not 
seem trustworthy for MS Windows and I depend on that my mail client 
works without problems.