I have no business using emacs. I am a literary translator and have a hard enough time maintaining discipline without the bottomless sinkhole of twiddling that is emacs. But I love it desperately, with an unrequited love, and have moved all aspects of my computing life into it, now including the deadly trifecta of [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGnus Gnus]], [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgMode Org]], and [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryBbdb BBDB]]. The translation I do could be done as easily in TextEdit (or Notepad, for that matter), but I justify my usage/abusage by employing emacs to maintain [http://paper-republic.org/ Paper Republic], a website (in [http://www.djangoproject.com Django]) about Chinese-English translation. It's unlikely I'd ever respond to a single email without the happy integration of Gnus and Org. My need to read/write Chinese in emacs has led me into the many dark and abandoned alleyways of unicode, and some truly awful experiences with Pinyin and Wubi. I'm on IRC as [::girzel]. Stuff I'm sort of chewing through: * An Epub exporter for Org * A translation environment based on Org * A blob of glue-code between org, gnus, and BBDB * A new version of BBDB built on top of [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispObjects EIEIO]] * A system of identifying word boundaries in Chinese (similar to what's done for Thai in [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/language/thai-word.el lisp/languages/thai-word.el]]) I may finish one or more of these projects before the age of retirement. [new:DrewAdams:2009-08-18 15:18 UTC] Welcome to the wiki. -- DrewAdams [new] Welcome and thanks for an interesting introduction. ---- CategoryHomepage