From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291869954 11901 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:45:54 +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 05:45:51 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 1PQYO6-0000l3-8H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:45:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYO5-0002w0-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:45:49 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1285639969 3868 166.84.1.1 (28 Sep 2010 02:12:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:12:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181513 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:76674 Archived-At: In article <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, Francis Moreau wrote: >Hello, > >After more than 2 years of gnus daily usage, I've finally decided to >give up :(: too much pain, too much trouble, too much complex, too >slow and too much wasted time. Gnus has definitively not been designed >for me. > >So I'd like to find something else to use (and I'm sure it should >exist because I'm pretty convinced that I'm not the only one in this >case) to read my emails and news groups. > >I started to use Gnus because I run emacs in terminal mode and I want >to do so when reading my emails/articles. I also want to use emacs to >compose them. > >>From my point of view, the most important features are: stability/ >robustness, speed and last but not the least usability. I think >Thunderbird has them but unfortunately it doesn't have a terminal mode >and can't use emacs in terminal mode to compose emails (yes it can >with emacs in window mode but it's quite hackish). > >Could the emacs users give me some alternatives ? > >Thanks Then trn4 is for you. Try it; you will definitely like it. You will especially like the "t" command, that draws a 2-dim graph of the current thread, showing where you "are" in it, thus making it easier to traverse back into the tree. David