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Emacs is freaking amazing!

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So I've been using Emacs off and on for the past 10 years. I'm a blind
person, and was introduced to Emacs on an old "note taker (PDA)" device
in the mid 2000's. It was called the Braille Plus, and was a Linux
machine with "apps" on top. It also gave access to the Linux console,
using the Speakup screen reader, and had a few programs you could
download for the console. I believe it ran Alpine.

First of all, the tutorial made sense. Emacs made sense. Emacs was new,
vibrant, and interesting. But then I found Emacspeak.

Emacspeak, at https://www.github.com/tvraman/emacspeak, is an "audio
desktop" for Emacspeak. Basically, a screen reader with a few facilities
for reading books, playing media, and plenty of advise hooks to make
other packages talk better. Emacs not only reads buffers, it gives me
syntax highlighting, sounds for events like file saved, action complete,
Company completion available, all that. And I love it. I love using it.
I love learning more about it.

And now I have it on my phone! I have Termux, the base Linux-like
system, Emacs, with Emacspeak on top. I had AI make C-e x b give me the
actual battery status of my phone, with estimated time remaining, using
termux-battery. I can copy something to the kill ring, then use Eshell
to termux-clipboard-set and boom, it's on my phone's clipboard! And with
Org-mode, I can write, with great cursor tracking and editing commands,
anywhere, with my Bluetooth keyboard. I can read epub books with nov.el,
do lite web browsing with eww, and read email and newsgroups with Gnus!

Basically, some programmers say Ruby makes them happy. Well, Emacs makes
me happy. And now I have it everywhere!

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Emacs is freaking amazing! Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 07:44 -0500
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 09:45 -0400
    Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> - 2026-04-14 09:24 -0700
      Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 13:31 -0400
        Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-14 18:41 +0042
          Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 15:50 -0400
            Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-14 20:45 +0042
              Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-14 20:49 +0042
              Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-14 16:35 -0400
          Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 12:47 -0500
        Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-04-19 02:20 -0700
          Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> - 2026-04-19 12:30 -0400
            Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-04-19 20:11 -0700
            EMACS!!! (ws: Emacs is freaking amazing!) yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-20 12:59 +0042
            EMACS!!! (was: Emacs is freaking amazing!) yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2026-04-20 12:59 +0042
      Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-04-14 20:06 +0000
    Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 12:45 -0500
      Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2026-04-15 21:23 +0200
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-04-19 02:19 -0700
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-04-21 16:41 +0100
  Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! Andros Fenollosa <hi@andros.dev> - 2026-04-23 08:33 +0200
    Re: Emacs is freaking amazing! John Bokma <contact@johnbokma.com> - 2026-04-23 15:00 +0200

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