Re: [DNG] what Emacs really is, jokes aside.

2016-05-24 Thread Irrwahn
On Tue, 24 May 2016 19:55:07 +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> Just for fun...
> 
> Not everyone knows this, but Emacs can be your psychiatrist. If you haven't 
> tried it yet, take a look at "doctor"

Of course, never miss out on aunty ELIZA!
In case of emergency dial M-x doctor.

Will soon be in desperate need for therapy; 
should I ever survive that Emacs thread, that is.

Nyan [Virus supplied by courtesy of Jaromil. :P]
Urban

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Re: [DNG] what Emacs really is, jokes aside.

2016-05-24 Thread Robert Storey
Just for fun...

Not everyone knows this, but Emacs can be your psychiatrist. If you haven't
tried it yet, take a look at "doctor"

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDoctor
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Re: [DNG] what Emacs really is, jokes aside.

2016-05-24 Thread Robert Storey
> Emacs is an excellent user interface, development environment, and
> desktop for ancient, text-only terminals.  That's what it was for back
> in the day.  That's what it still is.
>
> But people seem to be able to afford better terminals

For me, Emacs is a lot more than a development environment, though it's
good for that too. I've written whole books using Emacs as my editor, and
it's ability to handle unicode (and thus, foreign scripts) has been a
Godsend. I've mentioned a couple of times that I live in Taiwan, and Emacs
has great Chinese-input capabilities - superb for editing the html pages on
my bilingual website.

Kudos to all the folks who have worked on Emacs through the years.
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Re: [DNG] what Emacs really is, jokes aside.

2016-05-24 Thread Didier Kryn

Le 24/05/2016 03:36, Hendrik Boom a écrit :

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:16:48PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:

Le 23/05/2016 19:49, Jaromil a écrit :

I have no use for a PDF
viewer that can't print. Else I'd just use Emacs for that too ;^)
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 Indeed it does! I didn't even thought to try that. Looks like
one of these useless features in Emacs, given the number of pdf
viewers, or is it that Emacs wants to become a DE by itself. I read
once it can also send mails, and it can act as an IDE. I use it only
to edit files - and for Dr psychologist :-)

 Didier

Emacs is not trying to be a development environment; it always was one.

Emacs is an excellent user interface, development environment, and
desktop for ancient, text-only terminals.  That's what it was for back
in the day.  That's what it still is.

But people seem to be able to afford better terminals
these days.


I mostly use it in an xterm, with the -nw option. I'm old-fashioned.

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