<story><title>Absolute Beginner&apos;s Guide to Emacs (2012)</title><url>http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wildgoose</author><text>I have yet to encounter anything that can match the sheer flexibility of Emacs.&lt;p&gt;For example I am currently using Org mode to write some documentation complete with hyper-links, tables, foot notes and the option to export the results as LaTeX, HTML, Open-Office, and so on with just a few keypresses.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just an editor, or an IDE, or even a windowing system - it is a cross-platform computing environment that can be fashioned to exactly suit whatever purpose you require.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leemailll</author><text>Org mode is really awesome. A chemist basically does his work with org (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu&lt;/a&gt;) and recently another guy showing his colleague’s poster done with org and Beamer ( &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;irreal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;?p=7651&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;irreal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;?p=7651&lt;/a&gt;). I find org and mu4e really make mundane stuff easily done. On a mac and iOS system to get email, calendar, to do list, and notes done, it is usually 4 different programs, with emacs it is just org and mu4e and beorg on mobile.</text></comment>
<story><title>Absolute Beginner&apos;s Guide to Emacs (2012)</title><url>http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wildgoose</author><text>I have yet to encounter anything that can match the sheer flexibility of Emacs.&lt;p&gt;For example I am currently using Org mode to write some documentation complete with hyper-links, tables, foot notes and the option to export the results as LaTeX, HTML, Open-Office, and so on with just a few keypresses.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just an editor, or an IDE, or even a windowing system - it is a cross-platform computing environment that can be fashioned to exactly suit whatever purpose you require.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tiborsaas</author><text>How much time have you invested?</text></comment>