Re: What are Emacs best uses?

[Nikolay Kudryavtsev]

As quite a few people said before, Org mode is the killer feature of 
emacs nowadays.

Tramp is another thing that should be mentioned. Now you can even do 
remote sudo with it. That makes Emacs perfect for certain Unix system 
administration tasks.

With programming it's not as clear-cut. Some things are amazing, like 
vc, with it's support of so many back-ends and ability to work over 
tramp. Debugging on the other hand is usually way more painful, than it 
should be.

> Is Emacs adapting well to the changing computing landscape?
Yes and no. Emacs IMO has quite some troubles with adapting to certain 
current technologies. On the other hand it's way in the future. While in 
mainstream computing, users just use some prebuild and almost 
unchangeable product, in Emacs-land user is this divine being that has 
total control over it's environment. That's how computers should work. 
So Emacs is the first thing that adapted.

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Best Regards,
Nikolay Kudryavtsev