From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7496 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:13:43 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87verakaq0.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> 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 1149842422 15074 80.91.229.2 (9 Jun 2006 08:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 09 10:40:21 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 1FocXM-0002tF-Cb for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:40:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FocXL-0007oX-Vr for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:40:11 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ceymaw5JWhgS9ifcro3xEorO040= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 59 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77678 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:7496 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? Without knowing what you do or what your needs are, its nearly impossible to say for certain. However.... I have been using emacs almost exclusively for 99% of what I do for the past 8 years. I was an analyst/programmer, moved into managing a mid sized data centre and now do project management work (though I still miss programming and plan to move back there). In these jobs, particularly the management and project work, I need to interact with a lot of people on various platforms, produce lots of documents in high quality formats, maintain web sites relating to current projects and various other bits and pieces. While some of my emacs configuration took some time to get right, I have no problem with people sending me MS word, Power Point and to a limited extent XLS attachments, I produce PDF documents, edit wiki pages, use latex and docbook etc all without ever leaving emacs at all. I use modes like planner mode, muse, emacs wiki, nxml-mode, w3m and w3 for web browsing and if necessary, can send urls to firefox to render. I use emacs to produce presentations and slides for talks, a simple emacs based spreadsheet and database, bbdb for my contacts, calendar and appointment mode for tracking meetings etc and lots of other bits I've either downloaded or written myself. So, my answer is more than likely you will be able to do the vast majority of things you need to do through emacs - it may take some time before you find all the right packages, get the configurations just right and perhaps learn to do some simple elisp to assist in linking it all together. I run my emacs under Linux, so I can't say how effective it is in replacing all the standard windows apps, but under Linux it works well for me - your milage may differ. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au