ANGRY!!! Squish!

[PhilD]

Hey, I don't think emacs has real shell functions, right? Just a front-end mode for external shell programs.

But then, I almost agree with this: emacs is most of the interface you need. The only thing is, with today's habits people have with email, emacs isn't too good a mailreader - too many attached files and HTML garbage.

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

You can use Emacs for most things, but yeah--for many regular shell functions you have to "shell out". I was just kidding around a bit.

Although I did set emacs as my shell for a day (back in '92 I think) to see how well it would work. The next day I went back to bash. ;-)

I'm guessing Gandalf likes bash or tcsh and uses screen as a multi-desktop task-switcher. I used to do that, but I have to admit I have been spoiled by GUIs. First the mac, then xwindows, now I use Gnome for the most part. If I had to link in to my servers on a low-bandwidth connection, I would definitely still use screen+bash (or maybe a compressed vnc).

[B0rsuk]

I SQUISH pervert Uh-Nu-Buh, because he doesn't understand Kate is way hotter than emacs. http://www.kate-editor.org/
(kate in debian/ubuntu repositories)

As for shell, yakuake owns. It combines Quake usefulness, stability, quality, flexibility with Linux's fun and convenience of use. Seriously, the best console you can get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaKuake
(yakuake in debian/ubuntu repositories)

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

Kate is really nice. However, Emacs takes more ram, is slower, provides more features like the Psychoanalysis module (yes, it is JUST as good as going to a real psychiatrist), an Adventure game builtin, and more more more.

Sure, if all you want is a fast, feature-filled text editor with a great plugin architecture and DCOP supoort, then Kate is swell. But if, like me, you NEED something that has a dozen calculators builtin (financial, reverse polish, mortgage, scientific, etc.) an IM chat client, a PIM, a vocabulary builder, a calendar, chess, go, nethack, minesweeper, elite, sudoku, poker, email, news, life, pong, snake, tetris.... Then you need Emacs. Even now they are working on incorporating Dom III into Emacs--with all kinds of extras--tutorial, mismatched mod statements, unit worth calculator, map editor....

Emacs is the IT of IT.

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

YaKuake is new to me, but it looks awesome! Gotta get me some of that.

[PashaDawg]

I Super-Squish computer-wackos from Washington County, Maine, but living in Athens, GA, who Squish my Mac!

SQUISH SQUISH SQUISH!!