éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@ammaratef45" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ammaratef45</span></a></span> Practically my whole decades long career has depended on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a>, doing all coding (in a variety of languages along the way including LISP, FORTRAN, C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Octave, Julia, ...), writing many papers (mostly in org but with TeX/LaTeX modes before org mode), a book, all my lecture slides (org + beamer), a horrendous number of grant proposals, etc. Some of my students have used Emacs throughout their PhD studies including writing their dissertations.</p><p>I manage my email in Emacs (Rmail initially, then VM, wanderlust, and finally gnus) and couldn't imagine doing otherwise although I have tried many alternatives (mutt, pine, Thunderbird, Outlook, ...) over the decades just in case.</p><p>And a plug for mastodon.el to be able to respond to your toot in Emacs. :-)</p><p>Emacs is brilliant at undertaking all of the above because, at the end of the day, "it's all text" and Emacs is about managing and manipulating text *and* letting you decide how you wish to do so by being completely flexible and adaptable.</p>