From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:51:30 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <871u3uun7o.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87pprkbodk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381355717 30371 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2013 21:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 21:55:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 09 23:55:22 2013 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 1VU1j0-0008LC-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VU1j0-0004kG-92 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:55:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nJl98d1/+0ZBZjxgvTEmzsjMx3g= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201632 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:93901 Archived-At: Tom Davey writes: >> The only group that I see a small hope for are >> professional writers, translators, and such. I don't >> know how they typically do their stuff, but I think >> they would *love* Emacs! > > You are right. I am not a programmer, but rather a > director-level business manager who runs an in-house > Web development agency within a larger organization. I > do all my writing and task management in > Emacs. Org-mode is indispensable. I spend most of my > day working in Emacs and Org. Emacs's extensibility is > the other killer feature. I've taught myself a fair > amount of elisp to customize Emacs to my workflow. > > So for me, the vim vs. Emacs debate is > irrelevant. Emacs is far more than a programming > editor. When I show my colleagues what Emacs can do as > a quotidian business productivity tool they are > surprised and impressed. > > By the way, I run Emacs happily on Windows 7 in a > corporate environment that is 100% Microsoft. The > native Windows binaries for Emacs are superb. Many > thanks to whoever builds them. I do not use, nor > really have any need for, Cygwin. > > Thanks to all for the interesting thread. No, thank *you* for this very interesting story! -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573