[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Complexity of computing w/ Emacs

[Andrew J. Korty]

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Allen Halsey <address@hidden> writes:

> Emacs can subsume the functionality of all these apps in a single
> instance. That's one button on task bar. But I hesitate to embark on
> this approach because I am absolutely terrified that I'll click that
> one button and drown in a sea of buffers.

I use Gnus, Planner, Muse, ERC, and Emacs-w3m.  I've considered going
further and using jabber.el, EMMS, etc.  My concern is not being
overwhelmed by buffers but putting all my eggs in one basket.  If
Emacs crashes I lose everything.  I know the same is true for X and my
window manager (Ion > *, btw), but I'm not regularly inserting
potentially buggy Elisp into those.

Also, using Emacs for everything means losing some multitasking
ability.  Emacs-w3m uses asynchronous processes, but Gnus doesn't, for
example.

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Andrew J. Korty, Chief Security Engineer, GCIA, GCFA
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University
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