Fair point, but you try and get a whole company to use IRC+emacs ;) Not gonna happen.

The first company I worked for did everything on IRC. They were also by far the most successful company I've worked for. Coincidence?

Sure, and I still use IRC every day. But IRC+emacs is going to be a tiny fraction of the world, saying "this product is useless because there is an advanced alternative" is like saying "Oh, why would anyone ever want to fly commercial, it's so much easier and more fun to build and fly your own airplane".

emacs was just my example, but there are tens of IRC clients, from web clients to GUIs to android apps. Everyone can find a client they can easily used.

We have a pretty small team and use IRC pretty heavily. Works great and integrates with our internal github as well.

What about search + multiple chat windows on same screen?

I can search an emacs IRC buffer (it's just like searching a text file) or if I want to search everything I can just grep in my logs directory and get search results in emacs which I can then grep some more or easily copy paste to another buffer where I have a file open or a colleague who I'm chatting with.

For multiple windows, I can split my emacs in however many windows I want horizontally and vertically and switch around with whatever key bindings I want.

we even have our marketing guy use lechat. Try making your marketing use emacs ;)

The finance team at appnexus use ipython internally to scrape files, create aggregates, etc.

I dunno, it's just about teaching them about it at the right level. Don't swamp them with thousands of details, and don't leave them without a lifeline to call upon.

Although this is assuming they are a bit open-minded.

The finance team at appnexus use ipython internally to scrape files, create aggregates, etc.

I dunno, it's just about teaching them about it at the right level. Don't swamp them with thousands of details, and don't leave them without a lifeline to call upon.

Although this is assuming they want to be competent.

only problem with that is to find someone else who knows what emacs and irc are and how to use it, but anyone can use web-app or mobile-app.

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