I found that, when I stopped thinking of Emacs as an editor and starting thinking of it as a highly-opinionated operating system, it generally made more sense.
Yes. When I started working in the CS department and thus gained access to the Unix machines, I learned (from the others there) to just live in emacs, which wasn't just for editing files but also for running a shell, reading email, monitoring the Coke machine, and suchlike.
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Date: 2017-05-25 12:48 pm (UTC)Yes. When I started working in the CS department and thus gained access to the Unix machines, I learned (from the others there) to just live in emacs, which wasn't just for editing files but also for running a shell, reading email, monitoring the Coke machine, and suchlike.
but you have to love LISP...
But of course. :-)