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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Complexity of computing w/ Emacs
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Trent Buck |
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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Complexity of computing w/ Emacs |
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Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:04:30 +1000 |
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address@hidden (Zak B. Elep) writes:
> Same here :) I'd like to learn Elisp soon so I can get started hacking
> on an Emacs client for MusicPD[1], but right now that's not in the #A
> tasklist :D
Have you tried EMMS? For inspiration, at least.
>> My main worry is whether the efficiency of emacs UI can ever rise to
>> that of a suite of dedicated GUI applications.
>
> Maybe not with Emacs alone, but perhaps with Emacs and a UI that is
> designed with Emacs in mind, like Ratpoison or Ion.
I don't know how true it is to say that "RP was designed with Emacs in mind",
although both developers are hard-core Emacs users. A lot of it is a direct
mapping of screen to the X world.
It's more correct to say that RP and Ion are window managers, IMO a "UI"
encompasses the window system, window manager, toolkit and applications.
>> - Thunderbird Mail Client,
> M-x gnus
There are others, of course. vm is probably the next most popular.
>> - A Java IDE
> M-x java-mode; hell, even cc-mode is useful
There's also JDE, though I've never tried it. ECB some IDE idioms for a bunch
of languages.
>> - Mozilla Sunbird Calendar Application
> M-x calendar
...and diary, and appt. Planner, too.
>> - A couple of terminals
> M-x ansi-term, M-x eshell
Personally, I prefer M-x shell.
>> - An IRC client
> M-x erc-select
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ERC
There are other IRC clients.
>> - A text editor with multiple tabs for keeping notes and TODO lists.
> No direct analog in Emacs, but you can have several Emacs frames
> open and work as a *single* window in PWM.
Emacs can have tabs. XEmacs uses one implementation by default if you compile
(with widgets on, I'm told).
>> I think maybe I just haven't learned the right tricks yet.
Incidentally, I'm collecting tricks at http://twb.ath.cx/wiki/Workflow.xhtml,
although it's a massive mess presently.
Your first stop for discovering (in the HCI sense) elisp applications should be
http://emacswiki.org.
--
Trent Buck, Student Errant
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