From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Loyall, David" Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:20:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87ip3wjdlw.fsf@gmail.com> <7401FF63-B5F4-46AF-BD35-9717130FADBB@gmail.com> <87sj30hu83.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip3e4p60.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUIY8-0001Kh-Om for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:21:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUIY5-0007OF-II for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:21:00 -0400 Received: from mx03.ne.gov ([164.119.247.103]:48169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUIY5-0007O2-Ci for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:20:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ip3e4p60.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Org Mode Mailing List I might have converted someone this weekend. I had been babbling about Emacs, lisp, and the early 1980s to him for some = time.=20 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 thi= ngs 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: "Y= eah, 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 f= unction, 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 th= is again. [2] On my work PC, this says "Cannot open load file: solar". Thank goodnes= s it happened to work on my home laptop! (I won't fix this; no worries.)