On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 09:23:01PM -0500, David Storrs wrote: > I've been using Emacs as my sole text editor since about 1990. Things I > use on a daily basis include: > > - Dired mode > - Org mode > - iswitchb (which I think has been obsoleted by something else, but still > works fine) > - desktop-save-mode
I use emacs since about 1995, my dot-emacs file started life in 1999, as a bunch of dirty, misunderstood hacks copied from the net (well, I already understood some of Scheme at the time which helped a bit). Modes of particular interests for me: - org mode - wonderful stuff, see it in action on y-tube - w3m - for browsing certain pages, this one is getting old, I contemplated the source code for a while, maybe will look at it again - mail mode - I use it right now for writing, does good job together with color-theme (but I am not reading emails with emacs - I need to tame one of the modes first and am very afraid of stuff like deleting read emails when I wanted to keep them etc - so for now emacs is simply being called from mutt as just an editor) - color theme - makes my code look somewhat better, a fruit hanging lower that becoming a better software engineer - ielm - repl for emacs, helps a lot when I extend my dot-emacs or have some quick and dirty piece of oneliner in (e)lisp and desperately need to dump it somewhere - slime - which is to bread what butter and jam are to Common Lisp programming and last but not least - geiser - for editing Scheme and Racket I have also looked at quack for the same purpose. Getting used to both modes required some additional reading and problem solving, but I do not recall what was it. I admit, I could use Racket more often. I cannot recomend anything else - I have been too content and too busy to look for alternatives. And when something does not work, I would rather spend a day reading docs and trying to write proper elisp snippet [1] than spend a week evaluating "more engineered" environments. [1] However, despite all the reading I sometimes feel like some kind of undereducated magician's apprentice, who casts spell without reading elisp sources first, and thus might be surprised by what jumps out of monitor. A realist/pessimist will recognise it is only a matter of time until I am truly surprised. So far, so good, hehehe. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
