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Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question?
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mkeller |
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Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? |
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Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:37:26 -0800 (PST) |
Hi Will,
I find it cool that you're getting into emacs in your retirement years.
Speaks volume of who you are I think. What'd you do before retirement?
Anyway, I'm an emacs newbie (using it for abt 6 months), and use it for work
doing statistical genetics. For now, I solely use it as an interface for the
R statistical program. It has been great in this regard, but sometimes I get
frustrated as hell with it and want to foresake it all and go back to the R
gui (e.g., right now trying to figure out how to get the ediff thing to
work). But overall, I love the concept of open source software, and open
source journals for that matter, and I think emacs is great.
Matt
William Case wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> What are all you people doing with emacs ?
>
> I took an early retirement and now spend most of my time in a nicely
> fixed up den or office in the basement, on my computer using Fedora Core
> 6. I am learning and exploring computers more and more every day. I
> love it; I have come to firmly believe computers should be for the older
> and not the young.
>
> The point of my question is I use emacs to write an occasional bash
> script or a small C program. I screw around with beginners level lisp
> and watch things not work. But as I read the posts on the mailing list
> it is obvious emacs is being used for much much more. Sometimes it
> seems it has replaced the Gnome or KDE desktop. Outside of programming,
> I am having trouble imagining why people would use it. Do you use it
> full screen all the time; only in a terminal or a virtual terminal? Is
> it the only program you have running at start up with everything else
> being done by command line?
>
> I ask here because none of my friends have any idea what I am talking
> about.
>
> This is a casual chatty question not to be taken too seriously, but if
> some of you are taking a break from your real work, I would be really
> interested in knowing just what people really do with it. Emacs I mean.
>
> --
> Regards Bill
>
>
>
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