Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-10-04 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:47:57AM +0530, Sriram Karra wrote: > [...] > You may also want to check out this project: http://aquamacs.org/ I use it > on my personal MBP Thank you. Right now the conclusion is I will rather not use MacOS, or not very soon. But if I have a chance, I will have a

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-10-03 Thread Sriram Karra
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:22 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > Q1. I am becoming addicted to abusing Emacs (editor, but also host to > Elisp scripting language, which I am using to write more sophisticated > versions of some crude makeshift sh scripts from the past), but I have > read

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-09-30 Thread Charles Haynes
Um when I talk virtual machines it's so I can get environments I control onto my machine. I'm not hosting people I don't trust on my laptop... In that environment the risks of running something in a a VM or container are the same as running it directly on your desktop - or less. I use Mac laptop

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-09-29 Thread Tomasz Rola
Alok, Charles - thank you for the answers. Very much appreciated, because there is no way I could run "MacOS experiment" on a spare *puter - no time, no money. Well, so it looks like even though Emacs works without problem, there would have been some limitations if I moved to MacOS and I would

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-09-24 Thread Alok Singh
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 02:22 Tomasz Rola wrote: > Q1. I am becoming addicted to abusing Emacs (editor, but also host to > Elisp scripting language, which I am using to write more sophisticated > versions of some crude makeshift sh scripts from the past), but I have > read

Re: [silk] Few MacOS questions [was: What's your primary computing device?]

2017-09-24 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 05:32:49AM +, Thaths wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:37 AM Deepak Misra > wrote: > > > I observe that there is a statistically significant proportion of > > silklisters using Mac machines. Anything to read into ? > > As in do smarter