From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7462 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:19:03 +0200 Message-ID: <873behro2g.fsf@news.europe.ch> References: <87r721jae8.fsf@news.europe.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149694839 3409 80.91.229.2 (7 Jun 2006 15:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 07 17:40:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo091-0004bZ-2p for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo090-0001O7-Kv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: individual.net PvR0eiw6MwSZtJDX63m3IgRXw5VsR8RWK6IcLwL8VxYh6ctwBg X-Orig-Path: news.europe.ch!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5duTOHGGfQUIDjOM/aCxXRp+5NA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77649 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7462 Archived-At: me@privacy.net writes: > Hadron Quark wrote: > >>me@privacy.net writes: >> >>> I'm curious what you do with emacs >>> >>> and gNus >> >>I'd say everyone that posts in this ng .... > > Ok > > Dumb question on my part but here goes > > I sick of bloated and fat software from MS > > If I learn emacs can it replace say 80 percent of the > stiff I use now? What size is your stiff? I all seriousness, its a bit of a silly question. There are many things that emacs has been extended to do : none of which are particularly "GUI" and "Idiot proof" in the way that most MS apps are. What is it you do? Then google up emacs and see if there are packages which can replace the Windows SW you use. I have tried to use emacs as a C/C++ IDE and its rubbish compared to the more modern GUI ones IMO : I do, however, use it for news, email and chat. Anything thats basically text based I use it for since all apps then share the same "look and feel" and keyboard bindings for basic and not so basic editing. But there is a cost : emacs is not, despite what some would have you believe, the easiest editor/platform to come to terms with. But, and a big but, when you get into it I doubt you will ever change to another editor. Here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SiteMap