Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Ivano Da Milano <18101982.ia@gmail.com>]

Il Mer 20 Ott 2021, 02:36 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs
text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> ha scritto:

> Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
> Ivano Da Milano wrote:
>
> > [un]zip/tar/rar/etc archives
>
> archive-mode
>
> > ASCII Art - from image, but IIRC, there's an ASCII based
> > paint program
>
> artist-mode
>
> > Batch rename
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but it is possible, either
> directly from Elisp or some solution/combination with/from
> Dired and/or the shell ...
>

I mean renaming files all at once, applying string manipulation to the file
name

> Browser (like Lynx)
>
> Emacs-w3m (3rd party, based on w3m) or the built-in eww.
> Emacs-w3m is a Japanese project BTW, eww is from Norway
> I guess :)
>
> > Calendar
> > DBMS (SQL Client)
> > Diff/patch
> > MIDI/Music Player
> > Scientific calculator
> > Spreadsheet (like sc)
>
> Available  ...
>
> > Contacts manager
>
> ~/.mailrc
>
> > File manager (like Midnight Commander)
>
> Dired is what I and a lot of people use ... and while
> Midnight Commander is an orthodox file manager (an OFS) Dired
> is a directory editor, "[a] term that predates the usage of
> file manager". The first year they mention on the Wikipedia
> page [1] is 1974 for dired and 1984 for OFS, so that's
> a decade already ...
>
> > FTP Client
> > Id3 tag editor
>
> Don't know ...
>
> > IRC client
>
> ERC
>
> > Mail client
>
> There are several ... Rmail (written and used to this day by
> RSM) and Gnus (which is much more advanced, powerful, and
> generally recommended for mails from/with Emacs).
> In particular Gnus with Gmane for mailing lists! As the saying
> goes, "Gnus is to Emacs users what Emacs is to computer
> users".
>
> > OffLine browser (like HTTrack)
>
> You need/want a special browser for that?
>

Not sure about this


> > random password generator
>
> Write it yourself in Elisp - in the unlikely even no one did
> it already ...
>
> > Project management
>
> org-mode ... or text-mode ... or mhtml-mode
>
> > Speech recognition
> > System clean
> > Task manager (like top)
> > Torrent
> > Transcoder (with FFMPeg)
> > TTS (with eSpeak)
> > Volume mixer (like AlsaMixer)
> > Wave editor (with SoX)
>
> Not that I know of but you can execute any shell tool from one
> of the shell modes or terminal emulators ...
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_file_manager
>
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