From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:55:17 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lhs2qxoq.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404945439 2057 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2014 22:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:37:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 00:37:12 2014 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 1X50UB-0007d2-R9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:37:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4v9m-00073k-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:55:46 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wFCEivpBxg+z54mSjqy35V3bWsA= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206335 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:98605 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > I recommend using a new version of the Emacs manual > set. The last version of Emacs 18 was released more > than 21 years ago. The current manual describes > RMAIL in detail. A separate manual describes GNUS, > that manual is part of the set. "Message-mode" is > the mode for composing email and newsgroup posts that > comes with GNUS. So message-mode comes with Gnus? I thought it was older than Gnus, pre-Internet, pre-everything, perhaps used with uucp or even for intra-computer "mails". It doesn't have the "gnus-" prefix that is very consistently implemented in the Gnus world. > It's used by GNUS, RMAIL and several other programs. > It's frequently used, I'm using it now, that's why > it's included in the manual set. Of-course reading > an old manual is still useful, many things haven't > changed. Yes. -- underground experts united