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From: "Loyall, David" <david.loyall@nebraska.gov>
To: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:20:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FCEE4469EE8B234199968ECA9B0661E208CEEA30@STNEEX10MB02.stone.ne.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip3e4p60.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk>

I might have converted someone this weekend.

I had been babbling about Emacs, lisp, and the early 1980s to him for some time. 

I told him that Emacs was a 37 year old tree, that it had carefully tended for all that time by a community of folks that really cared about doing things the right way, and the result was that it already knows how to do just about all the small tasks that you can imagine asking it to do.

I started to demonstrate org sparse tree functionality[1], and he joked: "Yeah, yeah, but can it tell me what time sunset will be today?"

So I fired up the info browser and started searching and in less than sixty seconds, we'd invoked M-x sunrise-sunset .[2]

We didn't know our own longitude and latitude offhand, but it didn't matter: he was already impressed.  After I assured him that this was a built in function, and that I'd really never heard of it until just now, he said that he would look into Emacs.

:)

--Dave

[1] I should really make sure that I've memorized key bindings (well enough that enjoying a couple beers doesn't make me forget them) before trying this again.
[2] On my work PC, this says "Cannot open load file: solar".  Thank goodness it happened to work on my home laptop!  (I won't fix this; no worries.)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-22 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09  8:10 converting people to Emacs and org-mode 42 147
2013-04-09  8:29 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-09  8:47   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-13  8:16   ` Karl Voit
2013-04-09  8:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09  8:51   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09 10:21     ` Moritz Ulrich
2013-04-09 10:30       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09 11:05         ` Torsten Wagner
2013-04-22 14:26           ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-22 15:20             ` Loyall, David [this message]
2013-04-22 17:11             ` Bastien
2013-04-22 19:35               ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-22 20:03                 ` John Hendy
2013-04-23  5:19                 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-23  6:38                   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-22 21:50               ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-23  7:29               ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-23  9:01                 ` OT: Emacs screen colors (was: converting people to Emacs and org-mode) Karl Voit
2013-04-23  9:28               ` converting people to Emacs and org-mode Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23  9:37                 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-04-23  9:48                   ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-09 11:40         ` Bastien
2013-04-09  8:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09  9:50   ` Bastien
2013-04-09 10:03     ` Russell Adams
2013-04-09 12:27       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-09 15:31         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-09 16:28           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:17             ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-09 18:33         ` Loyall, David
2013-04-09 18:42           ` Chris Gray
2013-04-09 14:42 ` Gunnar Wolf
2013-04-09 21:03   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 20:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 22:26 ` John Hendy
2013-04-10 12:03   ` Doug Lewan
2013-04-13  8:43 ` Karl Voit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-09 23:59 42 147
2013-04-10  7:37 ` Bastien
2013-04-10 10:01 ` Suvayu Ali

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