From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:16:20 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ocihqq17.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272996471 32170 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:07:51 +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 20:07:49 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 1O9MX6-0002Av-3O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9MX5-0002T3-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:07:47 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net u56ze4HDqpJq1Z83FZ3xQgZUoC6m14QFy43u55SAI4FGSvEpIS Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDE4YzM3NzY0NWJiNjk0MTE5MTZlYmZhZWI5YjA3YzAzNjUzMDE2Yg== sha1:R9RUOuM1bQLWeHwMOlxl8QHbxIs= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177525 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73020 Archived-At: Daniel writes: > Thanks for all the help! Any other nuggets I'd really appreciate. > The entire impetus for looking into emacs is b/c the programmers that > I really am in awe of seem to really use it. These days everywhere > you turn there's a new GUI or language to learn, and I want to make > sure that emacs will ultimately lessen the number of things that I > need to learn in the future. When I work, my workspace is basically: - ratpoison, - an xterm with screen for remote computers, - three of four emacs instances with several frame each. - one Firefox frame, - one acrobat reader or xpdf for pdf docs. emacs is not multi-threaded, so to avoid pauses on long I/O, I use an instance for ERC, and another for GNUS, in addition to the instance for programming. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__