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I used to use emacs for, well, everything, but email in particular. I've never felt more productive. So what changed? Smartphones: with a smartphone becoming m
by jaaron 6y ago
I used to use emacs for, well, everything, but email in particular. I've never felt more productive. So what changed?
Smartphones: with a smartphone becoming more and more of my life, I wanted my information synced across devices. In the early days of smartphones, this was challenging. It became easier to work with clients and systems that had the idea of accessing data from anywhere baked in.
Emacs threading: In an effort to keep emacs as my client, I switch from pop3 to imap, but let's be honest, it's a pain for emacs. To do it right, you need a local imap server and then sync between that and your remote imap and even then, emacs hangs as it connects and syncs new email. The lack of real multithreading for emacs really holds it back.
- ssivark 6y agoFor regular syncing, if one runs mbsync/etc as a cron/systemd task, rather than triggering it through Emacs, then the locking problem should be avoided.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoSmartphones feel like an example of where we have really gone backwards. Ten years ago you could get a Nokia N900 with its hardware keyboard, and it was entirely comfortable to check my e-mail by SSHing from the N900 to my home computer which was running Emacs server and to which my e-mail was downloaded (as POP3, so no hanging like IMAP).
- oblio 6y ago> Smartphones feel like an example of where we have really gone backwards. For techies, which are something like 1-5% of the population. For everyone else, for grandpa and grandma, smartphones are a giant leap forward.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThis is a forum by techies for techies. Was it really necessary to spell this out?