Also, saying Emacs does too much is like saying or desktop environment does too much. Of course your DE is gonna have a calendar, calculator, text editor, web browser, email progrm, chat app, all that. It's just that Emacs fluidly combines them all into a single paradym to get used to, so that you can even, say, run a command on a file in Dired. I use this with Pandoc to convert books to HTML for reading on my NLS EReader. I just find the file, then do ! it asks what command I want to run: pandoc -o output-file.html and it returns: (output succeeded with no output). Devin Prater r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 11:17 AM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > True, but on the flip side, when you're using it as a personal organizer, > an email client, or anything else, then all of the editing functions just > work as you'd expect. No need to get used to the idiosyncrasies of each > application. It's true you have a lot of key commands, but some of them are > more intuitive then what people think of as the standard key commands. For > example, what's so intuitive about control+v to paste or control+x to cut? > > -- > Christopher (AKA CJ) > Chaltain at Outlook > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On > Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 11:09 AM > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: What is the easiest and most accessible editor? > > It's also a bit of a misnomer to think of Emacs as just a text editor. For > example, it can be used as a file manager, a development environment, a > personal organizer and more. > > I think that's one of the main problems I had with it. It tries to do far > too much, and puts everything into an editor style environment. I found it > to be a nightmare, especially the strings of key combinations that can't be > translated to some kind of mnemonic in most cases. > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistman.redhat.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fblinux-list&data=04%7C01%7C%7C43cfd108ee08412ba86708d9b424310e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637738889812365134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=fYaI%2Fhsq8%2Bf%2FYpt%2F1lxEYePM%2FVxlnvlhqfVptNpUEjQ%3D&reserved=0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list