From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:35:34 -0600 Message-ID: <7JOdnVEg2burAjvWnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> References: <87sk7tqqc0.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272996585 32760 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:09:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:09:45 +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 May 04 20:09:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9MYx-0003H6-6f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:09:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9MYw-0003AK-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:09:42 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:35:33 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87sk7tqqc0.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.133.4 Original-X-Trace: sv3-jvr1YLtEQ9daZunauy+kqHCvv4Blz5k6x3X7AISKVEFyt4Uxah+3dprxES8GuI6SVycy5wVGO23TFun!B551L+dsNYlyTuNTMiOEY1QiYIIGcEphJqgKzxlRqMKG28pgkKAHA7Tvt2t970Wq66Grh6AQXG0e!T4ct0vKd92sBzbTFWQ18FmdIGSjG Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177528 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-05-18 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73022 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Jeff Clough writes: > >> There are still things I leave Emacs for, such as surfing the web. My >> usage patterns for using things like Facebook, YouTube and a few forums >> make this much easier to do in a mouse and dedicated browser that Just >> Works. That said, 90% of my time is spent typing at an Emacs window. > > Yes, for heavily graphical web sites, Firefox is passable (too bad it > doesn't emacs key binding by default, I never took the time to configure > it so). But for most of my web browsing (ie. software documentation), > emacs-w3m is perfect. > > Firemacs addon for Firefox has most Emcas keybindings set by default, and they are configurable: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141 I use with w32 Firefox and Emacs but Mozilla says this plugin works with Mac and Unicoids too. Ed