From: Jason Earl <jearl@wegointer.net>
Subject: Re: emacs vs vs.net
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:23:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6ce6yrl.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wkr80upgve.fsf@hotmail.com
Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com> writes:
> Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Jason Earl <jearl@wegointer.net> writes:
>>
>>> Actually, if you read a *lot* of email, then Emacs
>>> probably would be helpful as well. Gnus has all
>>> sorts of tools for plowing through huge piles of
>>> email, and the fact that you never have to take
>>> your hands off of the keyboard to get everything
>>> done makes a big difference.
>>
>> What tools are those?
>>
>> Gnus does support searching in multiple groups.
>
> That should have been "Gnus does NOT support searching in multiple
> groups."
For searching I use find and grep :).
I wade through hundreds of emails a day (not counting spam). For me
the biggest advantages of Gnus over other email clients I have used is
the ability to quickly skim through groups without having to touch the
mouse. 'k' will kill useless threads, space will page through a
message 'A n' adds a task to my planner.el files (with a link to the
message in question). Lately I have been thinking about adding in
Remembrance agent http://www.remem.org/ to the mix.
The Remembrance Agent (Remem) is an Emacs plug-in that watches
over your shoulder and suggests information relevant to what
you're reading or writing. While search engines help with direct
recall, Remem is a tool for associative memory. Suggested
documents are displayed in a buffer at the bottom of your Emacs
window, and are updated every few seconds based on the last
hundred or so words surrounding the cursor.
I suppose if I used my inbox as a knowledge base I might be more
interested in searching. Even so, Gnus has some pretty compelling
tools.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-29 2:13 emacs vs vs.net William Shieh
2003-10-29 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 6:56 ` Micah Cowan
2003-10-29 9:00 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2003-10-29 7:27 ` Tim X
2003-10-29 8:56 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
[not found] ` <mailman.2678.1067410291.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-29 11:19 ` Henrik Enberg
2003-10-29 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 14:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2003-10-29 14:45 ` kgold
2003-10-29 21:09 ` Jason Earl
2003-10-30 18:52 ` Vagn Johansen
2003-10-30 21:15 ` Vagn Johansen
2003-10-31 0:23 ` Jason Earl [this message]
2003-10-31 19:35 ` Vagn Johansen
2003-11-04 2:33 ` Juri Linkov
2003-12-04 19:44 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-31 2:17 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-07 12:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-11-07 18:20 ` Vagn Johansen
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