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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Complexity of computing w/ Emacs
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Trent Buck |
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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Complexity of computing w/ Emacs |
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Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:58:27 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Allen Halsey <address@hidden> writes:
> In a GUI world, I have a buttons on my task bar for the applications I am
> currently running:
>
> - Thunderbird Mail Client,
> - A Java IDE
> - Mozilla Sunbird Calendar Application
> - A couple of terminals
> - An IRC client
> - A text editor with multiple tabs for keeping notes and TODO lists.
>
> To read mail, I click the button on my task bar for Thunderbird. Likewise for
> the other apps. Simple.
>
> Emacs can subsume the functionality of all these apps in a single
> instance. That's one button on task bar. But I hesitate to embark on this
> approach because I am absolutely terrified that I'll click that one button
> and drown in a sea of buffers.
Simple. Move the window bar into emacs as well.
> I think maybe I just haven't learned the right tricks yet. Should I run each
> major app in separate frames? In separate instances? Is using an alernate
> Window Manager like RatPoison the answer?
Before I dropped X altogether I was using RP. Now I live on the console, with
a screen window for each host. Each host runs screen, within which there is
generally one window -- emacs. Apart from switching between hosts, pretty much
everything is done in Emacs.
I often have a separate frame for Gnus (yes, you can have multiple Emacs frames
on the console), but I don't bother for w3m-el or planner or emacs-wiki --
usually it's only a keypress or two to get Emacs to DTRT.
--
Trent Buck, Student Errant
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- Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Complexity of computing w/ Emacs, Chris Parsons, 2005/07/06
- Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Complexity of computing w/ Emacs, Chris Parsons, 2005/07/06
- [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Complexity of computing w/ Emacs, Sacha Chua, 2005/07/06
- Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Complexity of computing w/ Emacs, Chris Parsons, 2005/07/06
- Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Complexity of computing w/ Emacs, Allen Halsey, 2005/07/06