From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7463 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mark@ixod.org (Mark T.B. Carroll) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:40:15 -0400 Organization: none Message-ID: <878xo9rn34.fsf@ixod.org> 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 1149694840 3419 80.91.229.2 (7 Jun 2006 15:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 07 17:40:39 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 1Fo092-0004bd-MJ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo092-0001Os-6r for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!news.cse.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: omicron.cse.ohio-state.edu Original-X-Trace: news1.cse.ohio-state.edu 1149694815 30166 164.107.112.44 (7 Jun 2006 15:40:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cse.ohio-state.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:40:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dfvskUdVbiKu6t8Zk1b6UdG1Eu8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77650 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:7463 Archived-At: me@privacy.net writes: > 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? I'm planning to try out emacs' planner and wiki stuff and whatever. There are emacs packages for many things, but many are poorly enough documented that it really helps to be able to read Emacs Lisp so that you can study the source code. For word processing and spreadsheets and whatever, probably I could bend emacs to those purposes, but frankly I use other free tools like LyX and Gnumeric instead. -- Mark