From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:16:23 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87lj61x07s.fsf@rapttech.com.au> References: <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <87zkw1p036.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291871025 15576 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 05:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:03:45 +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 Dec 09 06:03:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQYfN-0006nx-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:03:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYfM-0004Eh-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:03:40 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cfzJPvCkgLFrsM4cGZM0sMmC4yA= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12266cb3.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=R3i59jJfXNERm_f?\>0G3FL?0kYOcDh@JN7:H2`MmAUCU\YKDg@=BbC]G; 2>V^?kWCCAkl5c@XgkNVY1a>R5HV0NKj0bO`:=i3A Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181760 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76703 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Tim X writes: >> I am a member of the VM developer team. VM is an excellent mail reader >> with a lot of power/flexibility, which has been around for a long time. >> After it's original developer moved on to other things, it did languish >> a bit. However, since last year, a number of people have been working on >> it to update it and integrate many of the add on features that have been >> contributed by various people. Development is very active and a number >> of enhancements have been added over the last few months, > > Hmm, interesting. > > VM used to be pretty xemacs-centric though (sometimes it would work in > gnu emacs, but the support was pretty grudging); is this still the case? > > Thanks, > I've been using VM since 1997 and have never been an xemacs user. I've not found anything 'grudging' about it. Currently, most (if not all) the active development is done under GNU Emacs (though we still try to support XEmacs). Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au