Hi :) On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:39:44 +0000 Jean Louis <s...@rcdrun.com> wrote:
> Myself, I like the extensibility of Emacs Lisp, it gives me > environment to handle almost all my business needs. In my opinion, > the years from 1980-2000 were interesting years, people were more > interested in programming and purchasing a computer brought many > people into programming. Especially in earlier years, computers were > delivered with books for programmnig languages. And I remember > companies were designating one person to learn and do whatever > software was necessary for the single company. I have seen those > companies, visited them and visited programmers, even when I was a > boy. They had output on the printer, there was no monitor for big > computers. I have seen accountants sitting late night and studying > the program and making new programs for invoices and other business > calculations. And I have worked with a teacher who programmed > anything necessary for pupils to learn better. Programming was in. > Almost everybody I knew at that time, including colleauges of my > parents, including teachers, and boys and girls who went into comput > club, was aware that anything we wanted, we could program ourselves. > Games were harder to do, yet we programmed even games, it was more > fun playing one's own game then commercial games. So I come from the > period of time which taught me that anything I need can be > programmed, so I do programming for me and my business myself. > > Emacs Lisp offers me already the environment, like menues, it gives > me key functions, it gives me foundation, so I can extend it as I > wish, doing any possible business or private tasks, accounting > entries into database are conducted through Emacs for multiple > companies, projects and tasks are managed by Emacs, sending SMS and > receiving SMS recently I do by Emacs, all notes, SMS, faxes, emails > are recorded into database by using Emacs, and I can extend it with > few minutes or hours as I wish. As everything is related to writnig, > Emacs Lisp becomes my best choice. All entries, all text is related > to text editing, so that is very proper to have as foundation or > environment that may be further extended and integrated with other > life and business tasks. > > For example, in Dired file manager or directory editor, I just press > SUPER-M to mail the file or files to specific person, Emacs Lisp > function asks me for name of person, I choose one email among others, > and files are sent quickly, wthout launching separate software or > email reader. Similar integration is within Android or Replicant > operating systems. You can click on files and easier share them. > > That is example, anything can be done and extending new functions to > well prepared foundation helps me in life. > I would love to read and get inspired by your emacs configuration. Is it shared publicly somewhere? Cheers swedebugia