[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
