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Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net> writes:

> 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.
I started to use Emacs, on Multics, in about 1980 or so. Like Jonathon,
mostly as a text editor, but I also use "org-mode" to keep track of
things I have to do, and I am writing this response using "gnus" as my
newsreader. 
-- 
-Don_from_AZ-

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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
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