Re: your mail

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi,
> Therefore I start Emacs routinely during login and use it
> for everything that involves editing. It is only a pity that I have up
> to now not been successfull to let Emacs mob my floor or wash my
> dishes.

Yeah, and "M-x brew-coffee" doesn't work either :-)

Anyhow, Emacs let's you achieve a very high degree of automtization of a lot
of menial tasks like indenting, switching windows and typing latex ... 
repeatedly, ... ; in Emacs all it is required is C-c C-C RET.
IMHO Emacs is an integrated development environment which
let's you do your work a lot quicker than a number of other tools.  Also
you don't have to remember a lot of different (commandline) commands or 
have to think about how this program's GUI works opposed to that other
one's GUI.

There is also a wealth of additional modes out there which are not included 
in the distribution but make your life easier.  Emacs is as lean or as 
bloated as you make it!  (It even includes your shrink; try M-x doctor :-)

So long,
Stephan
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Stephan Engelke                                    engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de
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