From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:46:41 +0800 Message-ID: <874name6su.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87eh9yqnte.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376880396 18449 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 02:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:46:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 04:46:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBFUI-0001ti-J3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:46:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBFUI-0000vP-9B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBFU3-0000us-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBFTx-0005HL-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBFTx-0005HE-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBFTv-0001c2-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:46:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.252.246.79 ([114.252.246.79]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:46:11 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.252.246.79 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:46:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.252.246.79 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SXxPepz4IrgK/iduC0p4lYcMNyw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92970 Archived-At: Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Charles Philip Chan wrote: >>> Is it a good email reader? Does it work with gmail? >> Yes, via IMAP. > > But gmail allows multiple labels per conversation(thread). Does this not > confuse Emacs? Also, does Emacs group threads differently from Gmail, meaning > that you see a different thing in Emacs than what you see in the web > interface? Does this cause problems? Is there any potential for data loss? You could also consider using notmuch as an MUA. You can use it to tag messages, in a way that's fairly similar to the gmail interface, and it's conversation view looks a lot like gmail's. E