From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Ferrari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:50:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fvy2vyht.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368100247 11093 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2013 11:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 11:50:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 13:50:43 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 1UaPMw-0000zf-24 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 13:50:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaPMv-0004ZQ-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 07:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaPMi-0004ZI-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 07:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaPMh-0001do-CM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 07:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::231]:56017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaPMh-0001di-5o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 07:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id q58so2746751wes.8 for ; Thu, 09 May 2013 04:50:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=rgDNfkGx5Ugy81OUIx64AB1JF6EhdN4wt6j84vYwIlI=; b=KsQOsBMuPmnUfHyAQKaQyuV1iKEQR4b0ZHIvlIqjTu9yzp+wCOWuvrADA/iF/fhBRt tQESdib76NzV8WPY8OJdnF7kzbCSyHKI2Z0PX2VbyiSOqtfAa6gFG1mdKtbN46ygJCv4 19DTads8Uj861+Nms8kzjKErq3rG/PbG0dJcfy4tiVgvi1YYx+sylhCp4rMKGqofAhUv +r/X04Cgrvh1NPhvn2junUbqkgGPCVZiDZv3wgjED40nQiI3QSynSShflM+jQYL15Hxw pqbFlsNXGbMicouzZA0M9qad7YeBzA8eVJ1PSl/R2MudDHuQKl3SvT8w6JL7xW7lS1RS aB0w== X-Received: by 10.194.5.4 with SMTP id o4mr17461064wjo.40.1368100225681; Thu, 09 May 2013 04:50:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.174.197 with HTTP; Thu, 9 May 2013 04:50:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fvy2vyht.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0IyDP31Y5GnAPKtIocY46urA8TQ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::231 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:90571 Archived-At: On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > > Of course, every day! > > > Steven Degutis writes: > >> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor? > > That's rather the other way you should ask: what's the use case of using > a bitmap _graphic_ screen to edit _text_? > +1 On my desktop I use emacs within X window, even if I've disabled almost any toolbar and menubar and don't use the mouse at all. However, when connected to a remote server via SSH, being able to run emacs is a killing feature to me. Moreover, what I found very interesting to do is to start emacs on the remote machine and live within (i.e., use eshell for other tasks). Luca