From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: 18 Jun 2012 12:25:56 GMT Message-ID: References: <1339986746.80168.YahooMailNeo@web161603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340022614 9373 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2012 12:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:30:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 14:30:12 2012 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 1Sgb5w-0007uI-7N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:30:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sgb5w-0006Zn-5c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:30:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net SfxsxMDmp2m/N5KkNsxopgWWC9GPtne6cyAjbmFk62yooSVXhx5Z2/0A8Sfnl1aduQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:aNbb+RwAuVQ6u99kO80/cwqV0g4= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192888 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:85285 Archived-At: On 2012-06-18, Dan Espen wrote: > Emacs often spreads quietly. > > Lots of people I've worked with have seen the light. Then there are users like myself. Real lazy ppl who find it unacceptably annoying to have to add an extra keystroke each time they move from one mode to the other, like all things vi. I probably learned vi first, but kept wondering WTF! is it with this constantly changing modes nightmare. This is insane! So, because of slrn, I discovered jed. Later I discovered bash and many other linux utilities use emacs keystrokes. Finally, I took the plunge and got THE BOOK. The rest is history, as they say. I don't particularly like a lot of things about emacs, I suck as a progrmmer so don't do LISP, I don't use gnus, and am not a developer, and jed has better txt highlighting already enabled. Even as I struggle to learn C, I still don't understand how to compile a simple C program from inside emacs. Regardless, it's the coolest bestest file mgr and txt editor I know and I will always use it on the command line and would rather use M$ Windows notepad than vi. nb -- vi --the heart of evil! Support labeling GMOs