From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:30:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9klygil.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJR3QndE8ZbEMGxST435=PWU7ce5StJOOUMQZMxRKNEuMsaa+A@mail.gmail.com> (Jorge's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:05:18 -0300")
Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi. What are the best uses of Emacs?
> What is Emacs really good for? Is it a good personal information manager?
It's a jack of all trades. I can manage my personal information, and
write code. and web pages, and interact with a versioning system. All
the knowledge and muscle memory that I learn from one task cuts across
to another.
There are many tasks for which it is not the best tool -- I still use it
to write Java, when Eclipse is better. But, it's good enough, and I
don't have to relearn everything which happens in eclipse.
And it's easy to extend; there are some rare syntaxes that I use, and I
want support. Adding this to emacs is easy, and on the fly.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-13 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-12 17:05 What are Emacs best uses? Jorge
2013-08-12 18:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-08-13 4:04 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-08-17 14:11 ` Jorge
2013-08-17 20:20 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-08-18 10:31 ` Jorge
2013-08-19 11:09 ` Phillip Lord
2013-08-19 20:21 ` Charles Philip Chan
2013-08-19 2:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-08-13 11:30 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2013-08-13 14:43 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-13 16:05 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-08-14 8:21 ` Thomas Shannon
2013-08-15 14:41 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-08-16 9:49 ` Thomas Shannon
2013-08-14 14:51 ` Ken Goldman
2013-08-14 19:04 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2013-08-19 13:52 ` Luca Ferrari
[not found] ` <mailman.340.1376920365.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-19 14:04 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-19 14:35 ` Luca Ferrari
[not found] ` <mailman.342.1376922920.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-20 8:25 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-20 10:56 ` Luca Ferrari
[not found] ` <mailman.401.1376996210.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-20 12:44 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-21 1:58 ` Jason Rumney
2013-08-21 6:25 ` Luca Ferrari
[not found] <mailman.3062.1376327401.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-12 18:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-12 18:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-08-13 13:34 ` Joe Corneli
2013-08-13 1:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-13 3:29 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-13 11:52 ` Dan Espen
2013-08-13 12:27 ` Filipp Gunbin
[not found] ` <mailman.3116.1376396894.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-13 12:33 ` Dan Espen
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