From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Philip Chan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are Emacs best uses? Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:21:35 -0400 Message-ID: <87siy5e8j4.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> References: <87eh9yqnte.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> <87a9kgf4s7.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376943586 14882 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 20:19:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:19:46 +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 22:19:49 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 1VBVvZ-0006RI-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:19:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBVvY-0006zS-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBVvJ-0006yR-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBVvD-0006Ft-Sh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBVvD-0006Fm-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBVvA-0006Hw-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:19:24 +0200 Original-Received: from bas10-toronto01-845462802.dsl.bell.ca ([50.100.189.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:19:24 +0200 Original-Received: from cpchan by bas10-toronto01-845462802.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:19:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas10-toronto01-845462802.dsl.bell.ca X-Face: G; Z,`sm>)4t4LB/GUrgH$W`!AmfHMj,LG)Z}X0ax@s9:0>0)B&@vcm{v-le)wng)?|o]D\Z}0:6X User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G4bcH76uRQYc4c9POVI4sRsVNmM= 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:93001 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes: Hi Jorge: > Regarding Emacs as a mail reader: > 1) What about HTML email? I don't even know how much HTML mail I > receive (because it is transparent), but I am afraid it is > significant. The setup is dependent on which emailer you choose to use in Emacs. With the exception of recent versions of Gnus (which can use the builtin shr render), they all seem to depend on using w3m as a backend. Which emailer are you using? For composing html mails (if you must), you can use org-mime.el: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.html > 2) What about importing Google Contacts (the Gmail address book) into > Emacs? Can it be done easily without data loss? And once I migrate > to Emacs' contacts, will I easily see the contacts on my Android > smartphone? If you use bbdb, you can sync it with Google Contacts with Asynk: https://karra-asynk.appspot.com/ Charles =2D-=20 "People get annoyed when you try to debug them." -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlISfloACgkQ3epPyyKbwPbsOgCcDOE5trr+HochrgYsogUKzpK7 qiMAnRSrrF6rUDuzOmi7opeWrEb7uBOY =58BW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--