From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: mime-compose.el and Debian
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:49:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7ieu6$pga$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8764wzgw2s.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie>
Brendan Halpin wrote:
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>>Doesn't RMAIL respect mail-user-agent?
>>
>>(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)
>
> Yes, it does, but my problem is knowing which one I *should* use,
> in terms of long-term development of functionality.
>
> I was thinking that I should go to message-mode, which is on the
> face of it more sophisticated, but mail-mode is core Emacs, and RMS
> is in favour of it staying that way (and in theory merging
> message-mode functionality back into mail-mode, but I don't know if
> that is happening).
What is this core Emacs you speak of?
Judging from the lisp/ChangeLog and gnus/ChangeLog files in CVS, both
mail/sendmail.el and gnus/message.el are being actively maintained but
not much further developed. So I'd go with the one that actually
provides the functionality you need.
--
Kevin Rodgers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-31 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-27 15:26 mime-compose.el and Debian Brendan Halpin
2005-05-27 15:28 ` Phillip Lord
2005-05-27 16:19 ` Brendan Halpin
2005-05-30 10:10 ` Brendan Halpin
2005-05-31 16:44 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.2624.1117558671.25862.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-31 17:10 ` Brendan Halpin
2005-05-31 19:49 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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