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Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?
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David Z Maze |
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Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? |
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Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:48:20 -0400 |
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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
- Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, (continued)
- Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, Hadron Quark, 2006/06/07
- Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, Ted Zlatanov, 2006/06/07
- Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, Malte Spiess, 2006/06/07
- Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, Tim X, 2006/06/09
- Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, me, 2006/06/09
Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?,
David Z Maze <=
Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, Robert D. Crawford, 2006/06/07
Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?, Joe Fineman, 2006/06/07