Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 11, 2007 02:33 AM
>>"Do one thing, and do it well."
>>Why don't people just use a simple text editor? >>Why would they want to bloat it with task manager and e-mail functionality?
I would argue that Emacs _does_ do one thing well; that is, it's a text editor. It just happens to handle a wider variety of text than most other editors. And there in lies its beauty. Why learn one program to edit texts, another to write a program in C, another to create/edit web pages, yet another to help organize your daily tasks and still another to write/read email/USENET? And no one said you have to learn/use ALL the modes/features; just learn the ones you need now and leave the rest for if/when you need them later.
In fact, I rank Emacs as my #1 program, aside from from GNU/Linux OS, that is.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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Re:One thing
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 11, 2007 02:33 AM>>Why don't people just use a simple text editor?
>>Why would they want to bloat it with task manager and e-mail functionality?
I would argue that Emacs _does_ do one thing well; that is, it's a text editor. It just happens to handle a wider variety of text than most other editors. And there in lies its beauty. Why learn one program to edit texts, another to write a program in C, another to create/edit web pages, yet another to help organize your daily tasks and still another to write/read email/USENET? And no one said you have to learn/use ALL the modes/features; just learn the ones you need now and leave the rest for if/when you need them later.
In fact, I rank Emacs as my #1 program, aside from from GNU/Linux OS, that is.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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