From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:33:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376397316 27889 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 12:35:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:35:16 +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 Aug 13 14:35:19 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 1V9Dol-00087h-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Dol-0007qN-4e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b4d99857b7659717d3b28a24c766d4c"; logging-data="14387"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/e2sgh7W5PtO/+ia3W4aYPW/bjVGxxENI=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:es7Q5CoL30CBm1N/7Ndsz87uMGQ= sha1:c/JZoQNtCHPkQBT53o6ZV5mRk1Q= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200572 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:92838 Archived-At: Filipp Gunbin writes: > On 13/08/2013 15:52 +0400, Dan Espen wrote: > >> Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hi. What are the best uses of Emacs? I currently use it to compose emails, >>> manage files, to edit LaTeX, and to edit source code and configuration files. >>> But Emacs seems to be mediocre at viewing PDFs. Evince has better search. >>> >>> What is Emacs really good for? Is it a good personal information manager? >>> Can you manage your information (todo, grocery list, etc.) and sync with a >>> smartphone? If you can't sync with a smartphone, how do you manage the >>> grocery list? >>> >>> Is it a good calendar? Can you easily collaborate with colleagues who use >>> Google Calendar? >>> >>> Is it a good email reader? Does it work with gmail? >> >> I pull my gmail account with fetchmail, then read with GNUS. > > It's also possible to fetch mail via imap directly in Gnus, more on that > in "(gnus) Mail Sources" info node. I switched to this method from > fetchmail. The advantage I get from fetchmail is that I fetch from multiple sources into /var/mail/user then a biff program notices the file size being non-zero and it lights up the scroll lock LED. I can tell if I have mail when passing by my home office. -- Dan Espen