From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mkeller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:37:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8897125.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171091057 14854 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 07:04:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:04:17 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 08:04:14 2007 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 4.50) id 1HFmHL-0002M6-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:04:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFmHL-0002kr-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFi7E-00024B-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFi7E-00023z-2h for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFi7D-00023w-U3 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:37:27 -0500 Original-Received: from www.nabble.com ([72.21.53.35] helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFi7D-0002W8-IX for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:37:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFi7C-0004bs-8A for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:37:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> X-Nabble-From: mckellercran@gmail.com X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:03:03 -0500 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:41051 Archived-At: Hi Will, I find it cool that you're getting into emacs in your retirement years. Speaks volume of who you are I think. What'd you do before retirement? Anyway, I'm an emacs newbie (using it for abt 6 months), and use it for work doing statistical genetics. For now, I solely use it as an interface for the R statistical program. It has been great in this regard, but sometimes I get frustrated as hell with it and want to foresake it all and go back to the R gui (e.g., right now trying to figure out how to get the ediff thing to work). But overall, I love the concept of open source software, and open source journals for that matter, and I think emacs is great. Matt William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > What are all you people doing with emacs ? > > I took an early retirement and now spend most of my time in a nicely > fixed up den or office in the basement, on my computer using Fedora Core > 6. I am learning and exploring computers more and more every day. I > love it; I have come to firmly believe computers should be for the older > and not the young. > > The point of my question is I use emacs to write an occasional bash > script or a small C program. I screw around with beginners level lisp > and watch things not work. But as I read the posts on the mailing list > it is obvious emacs is being used for much much more. Sometimes it > seems it has replaced the Gnome or KDE desktop. Outside of programming, > I am having trouble imagining why people would use it. Do you use it > full screen all the time; only in a terminal or a virtual terminal? Is > it the only program you have running at start up with everything else > being done by command line? > > I ask here because none of my friends have any idea what I am talking > about. > > 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. > > -- > Regards Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OT----An-extremely-dumb-curiosity-question--tf3194232.html#a8897125 Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.