From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7471 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:48:20 -0400 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149698577 18850 80.91.229.2 (7 Jun 2006 16:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 07 18:42:48 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 1Fo16P-0000yi-5f for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo16O-0008Qo-HR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:41:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!elk.ncren.net!news2.wam.umd.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZgJxOXwFd6ADnKqjW/ZoMfVaag4= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1149695301 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 561 18.7.16.67 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77653 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:7471 Archived-At: me@privacy.net writes: > I'm curious what you do with emacs > > and gNus While this probably isn't the right newsgroup for it... My computing life is almost entirely under Linux. At work I'm fortunate enough to use a Red Hat derivative; at home I run KUbuntu, a KDE-based Debian derivative. Emacs has an incredible amount of power and I've gotten it configured to do what I like; I've had a lot of trouble getting other editors and environments (e.g. KDE's "advanced text editor", Eclipse) to do the same sorts of things that I want. In the modern world, Emacs is kind of a middle-weight process -- Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping might have been an issue ten years ago but now it's nothing on PC-class systems where gigabytes of memory are approaching the norm. I still find it too heavyweight for command-line use, so I will use vi (or occasionally even ed) for things like editing configuration files. The flip side of this is that, since desktop environments now typically make heavy use of off-white colors and antialiased fonts, Emacs looks barren and jagged against the rest of my desktop. What do I use Emacs for? General-purpose text editing, including especially writing longer things in LaTeX and editing XML (XSLT, XML Schema, XHTML, ...) files (yay nxml-mode). Any coding happens pretty exclusively inside Emacs (C, C++, Haskell, make, Python, ...). And of course all of my non-work email gets read inside Gnus. My Gnus setup uses an IMAP mail-source fetched into an nnml backend stored on an AFS networked filesystem. I use spam-stat.el to sort out spam from ham. This combination of things makes starting up Gnus a little slow. I also have one nntp server that I read a couple of newsgroups (including this one) off of. Right now I have three Emacsen running on three different machines. One of them is running Gnus. This is a pretty normal daily state of affairs for me. --dzm