Re: [FoRK] Just fucking build it!™

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Russell Turpin wrote:

>
> eff Bone:
>> PS - a now, what, 20-odd year vi man, and over the 40 hump, my New
>> Year's resolution is... drum roll... learn emacs! ;-) Whee!
>
> Jeff, for your own good, back away from the keyboard. Emacs is a
> passable text editor for people like me, who just want to get the
> fuckin' job done, and don't care which variety of Emacs we are using,
> and are happy to pick up a macro file for programming language du
> jour from someone else.
>
> But see -- you're not like that. You're going to try to learn Emacs.
> To know its ins and outs. To grok it.
>
> And that's a rabbit hole into which you don't want to jump.

Actually, my thinking was just that since Freakin' Steve Jobs (not to  
be confused with Fake Steve Jobs) won't give me a built-in  
remembrance agent, and I don't feel like rolling my own or hacking on  
somebody else's half-ass half-complete implementation (well, maybe,  
cf. Shelf...) then perhaps I should just adopt the operating system  
for which one *does* exist.

Yeah.

And then I can pick either Planner or Org mode, hack up some glue  
between that and the remembrance agent.

And then switch to using Gnus, reading my mail and news in there.   
Surely there's a feed reader, too.  And use W3 for my surfing.

Right.  And then I hack up some glue from all of those things to the  
remembrance agent as well.

That's the ticket...


Oh.  Wait.  It's happening, isn't it?

;-)

jb