[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hadron Quark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
What size is your stiff? I all seriousness, its a bit of a silly question. There are many things that emacs has been extended to do : none of which are particularly "GUI" and "Idiot proof" in the way that most MS apps are. What is it you do? Then google up emacs and see if there are packages which can replace the Windows SW you use. I have tried to use emacs as a C/C++ IDE and its rubbish compared to the more modern GUI ones IMO : I do, however, use it for news, email and chat. Anything thats basically text based I use it for since all apps then share the same "look and feel" and keyboard bindings for basic and not so basic editing. But there is a cost : emacs is not, despite what some would have you believe, the easiest editor/platform to come to terms with. But, and a big but, when you get into it I doubt you will ever change to another editor. Here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SiteMap _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
