John Stoffel writes: > I had a boss who lived inside emails, ran shell mode all the time. > I've tried, but can't stand it. Cut'n'paste from an xterm has been > all I've needed if I wanted to grab some screen output and then edit > it.
I tend to prefer to use a terminal window with a shell in it for normal shell interaction, but I do have some uses for M-x shell. I often find it easier to use Emacs kill/yank (cut/paste) to parts of shell output back into a buffer, or establish a region and use M-! to process it as input for a shell command. > I also use 'screen' ALOT as well. tmux has been tried, but kicked to > the curb for not being like screen keybinding wise. :-) Since I became more of an Emacsphile I have actually tended to use Emacs sort of like how some people use screen or tmux; I keep an Emacs around with the editing server enabled (server-start) and use emacsclient in remote logins to get an editing window with access to all the stuff I have going in that Emacs session. (Which can be a lot. See below.) Also there's this great Firefox plugin called "It's All Text" that will fire up an editor of your choice (vim, Emacs, etc.) on TEXTAREA input in your browser, so you can use something other than the crappy minimal editing functions in Firefox itself. I have mine configured to run "emacslient -c" and use it whenever I need to do extensive editing in a form, such as working with ticketing systems where I often want to pull in data from files, which can be tedious with cut-and-paste. > I do use vi/vim for small, quick edits. But once I get into major > work, I shift back into emacs. Esp if it's plain ol' vi and not vim. I still occasionally do small edits with vi (but I much prefer nvi to vim, partly for the small footprint, partly because the extra stuff in vim just annoys me). > But even then, I still work best in emacs for text editing. I wrote > this reply inside emacs using VM. VM has a remarkably dedicated following. I myself started using it sometime around 1990 and it's been my preferred email reader ever since. (I'm soaking in it right now.) A few years ago I took a little more of a dive into Emacs and it has since assimilated these other functions for me: Jabber client (with emacs-jabber) IRC client (with ERC) Calendar/diary (it also turns out the icalendar-import-buffer function can import standard calendar messages from Exchange or Google into readable diary entries) Org mode (general-purpose outline/organizer/scheduling tool, seems to have a remarkable ability to suck people into Emacs) Calc (full-function scientific calculator for Emacs) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
