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Re: [O] [OFFTOPIC] The statement on what is orgmode.
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Eric Schulte |
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Re: [O] [OFFTOPIC] The statement on what is orgmode. |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:40:08 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>
> Things you can't do in Emacs that feel as if they *should* be practical,
> even though they currently are not
>
> - Web browsing with ease, and with a full list of currently-expected
> features (i.e. features to make the general public say "Wow! This is
> much better than Firefox! I'm switching to this for banking, and for
> everything else as well!" - not "Umm, why does it look like
> this?"). This single (admittedly huge) feature, probably along with
> the next one, are IMO the "killer features" that Emacs does not have.
>
> - Ability to continue working in other buffers when one buffer is
> busy. Combine this feature and the one mentioned above, and I (perhaps
> along with a lot of other people) move from two primary every-day
> applications down to one.
>
I can sympathize with these first two points. Until the symbolics lisp
machine is resurrected and we return to a world of parens and turtles
all the way down, I've resigned myself to living in a mixed lisp/unix
environment. That said, I've been able to cobble together an interface
which very closely approximates an Emacs operating system.
1. A tiling window manager (I personally use xmonad [1]). This lets you
navigate all of your windows as if they were Emacs buffers, and
allows one to go hours using multiple applications without having to
use a mouse.
2. Conkeror [2], a web browser built on the same code base as Firefox,
which makes web browsing as Emacs-like as possible (e.g., tabs are
buffers, and most of the main key chords are the same).
The major component my desktop is missing is a system-wide kill ring.
I've used tools which purport to provide this, but have yet to find one
that works the way I want it to.
Cheers,
Footnotes:
[1] http://xmonad.org
[2] http://conkeror.org/
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
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