Some weeks ago, I wrote an article on my dilemma trying to determine which language to use for a calendar system. I just thought I’d make a public update to not leave it hanging.

The solution is Emacs. I’m now using org-mode, combined with diary. I’m working on some Perl and elisp hacking (so far just the Perl) to create a calendar system that synchronizes with my Clie (using PilotManager, since it already has a conduit for BBDB). This, combined with Gnus for reading my e-mail, is working rather well, and using remember.el I can easily convert an e-mail into a task. I even switched from IMAP (nnimap backend) to the nnml backend and that seems pretty nifty (so far).

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It’s official. I’m an Emacs user.

I’ve been using it a fair amount for the last two to three weeks, and have grown rather comfortable. I’ve done several configuration things, and am working on building up a decent configuration base for it.

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