Re: Emacs is freaking amazing!

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From	Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net>
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Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> writes:

> 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!

I've been an emacs user for years, but mostly as little more than a text
editor.  More recently, I've started incorporating more and more of my
workflow into it—I read your message and am composing my reply with
emacs—and I have to say, I love how nicely everything integrates with
everything else.

That said, I was unaware that emacs had the accessibility features it
does.  I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by that, since it has just
about everything else, but that's good to know.

-- 
Regards,
Jonathan Lamothe
https://jlamothe.net

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  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
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