why manage all of those programs? just master emacs. mail, web browsing, editing, music player, irc/chat….all within one program with which i can modify with elisp

place emacs inside tmux and you get session persistence too

p.s. no matter what chat client is used, btlbee is the way to go

Thanks for the suggestions.. sounds like a fun adventure!

^ IMHO twin is better and easier to understand than screen. I never understood screen that much TBH.

Dude, did you forget screen?

thank for the information, really usefull
but I have my own choise for non-X application
this is the list
web browser:lynx
download manager:wget
email client:pine
mp3 player :Mpg123

When I tell people I can’t drive a standard transmission car, many people laugh. The funny thing is, I’ve been a computer nerd my entire life, and a command line person. I believe many people are “trained” to think the GUI == The Machine.

It’s healthy to escape outside your comfort zone for a while. For the record, I’m a big Cisco guy, and much of the power of their equipment is on the command line. Sure the GUIs are getting better, and are nice and fun to use, but you never know when you’ll need to drive that manual transmission in an emergency.

I think I could fake it.

screen for sure!
strings for reading MS Documents
pdf2html for converting pdf files to html then use lynx etc
finch for msn and irc.

+1 for finch It’s very similar to Pidgin (not only based on it but made by the same people). It’s the best choice, and multi protocol

if you are not too partial to naim, finch is a great ncurses based interface based on purple ( read: pidgin / gaim ). one of my favorites. also, for images aalib is just great, and it has a great video out device for mplayer that real-time encodes the movie to text.

cheers man, great article,
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I thought of something else to add, nano! It’s easier to use than vi(m) or emacs, I don’t know why it’s not on there. (it’s for the n00bs)