From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debunking Emacs merits over GUI - Re: package for Email Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:41:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87fsc7ytc6.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <20230118180348.gzwvy6iztok45ko3@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18202"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/LIuijAGNYJb7MsMA9RAPtcFDRw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 12:46:44 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pITNT-0004SV-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:46:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pITNJ-0000AL-2M; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pINfx-0001UU-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pINfv-0004qE-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pINfs-0009ya-S8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:41:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:46:31 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142412 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >> I don't use thunderbird. But emacs/cli based emails clients >> generally have common merits over GUI client: >> >> - They are keyboard centric. > > That some application is "keyboard centric" is not a merit > over GUI client which is maybe assumed not to be keyboard > centric. In fact, being "keyboard centric" > impairs usability. It's a matter of styles; either that or the keyboard is preferable to most stuff where the mouse don't have an apparat advantage, e.g. GFX, CAD, GIS, FPS ... Not OpenSCAD, maybe ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal