From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:51:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376491944 16251 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2013 14:52:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:52:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 16:52:25 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 1V9cQy-0007ss-C7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:52:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9cQy-0000La-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9cQf-0000LJ-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9cQY-0000nS-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9cQY-0000mg-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9cQT-0007Yf-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:51:53 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:51:53 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 16:51:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92885 Archived-At: I use it for __text__ editing. I don't use it for web browsing, pdf or image viewing, etc. For many applications, coding in C, Java, scripting, makefiles, email, documentation, ..., there is probably some point tool that works slightly better. But emacs does all of them quite well, and it runs everywhere, so you only have to learn one editor. On 8/12/2013 1:05 PM, Jorge wrote: > 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.