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Yes, but who actually does that?

by waynecochran 8y ago

Spivak 8y ago
There are tons of people who read email in Emacs, mu4e is great. Browsing the web is probably less common.
- greglindahl 8y ago
  Don’t all of the package managers use the web?
  - tazjin 8y ago
    I build my Emacs distribution, including packages, using Nix[1], which means that input hashes of all the package sources are fully pinned. This process is external to Emacs though. The Emacs internal managers all go towards the same HTTP(S) sources and I haven't seen one that pins input hashes or uses signatures, with the exception of pinning git commit hashes when using git as a package source in straight.el[2]. [1]: https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config/blob/master/emacs.nix https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config/blob/master/emacs.nix [2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-straightel-2 https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-straig...
dustfinger 8y ago
I use exwm (emacs) as my windows manager, rcirc as my irc client, eww as my browser, gnus for email, magit for git, tramp for remote control. All of these tools make use of TLS. Honestly, I literally live my life on a computer. If you do it to the extreme that I do then you will find that customizing your experience becomes important. Emacs is designed from the ground up for customizability.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
I read e-mail. I'm not yet comfortable with browsing the web through Emacs, but I'm slowly getting to it. Emacs is a superior environment for anything having to do primarily with text. Mail is mostly text, so it's a natural fit. Most of the actually useful content on the Web is text as well, so a large percentage of browsing can benefit from this environment as well.
cmiles74 8y ago
I use notmuch-mode[0] to read my email and I get a lot of email. It's easy to sort and quick to search. In this case, other tools communicate with the mail server. I use Calfw[1] to keep an eye on my calendar, I believe this mode uses TLS when communicating with Google, etc. [0]: https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/ https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/ [1]: https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-calfw https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-calfw

Yes, but who actually does that?

Spivak 8y ago

There are tons of people who read email in Emacs, mu4e is great. Browsing the web is probably less common.

greglindahl 8y ago
Don’t all of the package managers use the web?
- tazjin 8y ago
  I build my Emacs distribution, including packages, using Nix[1], which means that input hashes of all the package sources are fully pinned. This process is external to Emacs though. The Emacs internal managers all go towards the same HTTP(S) sources and I haven't seen one that pins input hashes or uses signatures, with the exception of pinning git commit hashes when using git as a package source in straight.el[2]. [1]: https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config/blob/master/emacs.nix https://github.com/tazjin/nixos-config/blob/master/emacs.nix [2]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-straightel-2 https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el#advantages-of-straig...

dustfinger 8y ago

I use exwm (emacs) as my windows manager, rcirc as my irc client, eww as my browser, gnus for email, magit for git, tramp for remote control. All of these tools make use of TLS. Honestly, I literally live my life on a computer. If you do it to the extreme that I do then you will find that customizing your experience becomes important. Emacs is designed from the ground up for customizability.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

I read e-mail. I'm not yet comfortable with browsing the web through Emacs, but I'm slowly getting to it. Emacs is a superior environment for anything having to do primarily with text. Mail is mostly text, so it's a natural fit. Most of the actually useful content on the Web is text as well, so a large percentage of browsing can benefit from this environment as well.

cmiles74 8y ago

I use notmuch-mode[0] to read my email and I get a lot of email. It's easy to sort and quick to search. In this case, other tools communicate with the mail server. I use Calfw[1] to keep an eye on my calendar, I believe this mode uses TLS when communicating with Google, etc. [0]: https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/ https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/ [1]: https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-calfw https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-calfw