Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 21 March 2003 04:49 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Hello > > > > I wanted to get an expert and informed consensus on what command line > > interface tools are well suited to each of the following purposes which > > may well mean what you use. My current choices have been entered but > > please feel free to add your own with a comma in between. Also, if you > > feel any categories are missing please add them! > > > > # Email: mutt, > > # Editor: vim, > emacs anyone? >
Hi, # Email: emacs (gnus) # News: emacs (gnus) # Browser: emacs (w3m) # File manager: emacs (dired) # Games: emacs (includes a dozen or so) # Chat client: emacs (tnt for AIM) # IRC: emacs (erc) # Sound mixer: emacs (mpg123.el) # Editor: emacs # Diff: emacs (ediff) # Read file: emacs (M-x view-file or 'v' in dired) # Transfer file: emacs (tramp -- ie. just about any protocol) # Compression: emacs (automatic compression/decompression) # PDF creation: emacs (via auctex or sgml modes) # txt2html: emacs (htmlize) # Term: emacs (eshell, term or shell depending on the situation) # Partitioning: fdisk # System info: /proc # CD writing: cdrtools (there's app-emacs/cdrw btw) # Gentoo: # Others: # MP3/OGG player: emacs (mpg123.el) # CVS interface: emacs # Manpage viewer: emacs (M-x man or M-x woman) # Info viewer: emacs (C-h i) and finally: # Shell: /usr/bin/emacs I'm also a software developer, so I use several programming modes within emacs also (jde for java mostly). I could probably think of a few more tools I use within or as part of emacs, but I don't have time :-) Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
