From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: starting an external command from emacs Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:54:05 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226587326 2688 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 14:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:42:06 +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 Nov 13 15:43:06 2008 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 4.50) id 1L0dPT-0003Qz-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0dOL-0006sc-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:41:53 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!news2.euro.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cYEgKMhuy2x0XUA1teUzCQ.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:54:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YcJ+NRv5mCmS02B+xwr52/oC+RI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) XEmacs/21.4 (Educational Television, i686-pc-linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164401 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:59734 Archived-At: Matt Price writes: > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 18:08 -0500, Dan Espen wrote: >> Matt Price writes: ... >> Have you looked at VM, MH-E, rmail, GNUS? >> (Existing Emacs mail interfaces.) > > hi dan, > > i did look briefly at all of these, but two issues for me: > > - all of them feel a little daunting I find MH-E to be very simple. The way mh keeps each email in a separate file is a bonus. I've configured mh-e to use lynx to convert all the HTML email I get to plain text which helps being able to copy paste plain text. VM looks to me like it's better supported with more features but I've never tried it. GNUS strays from a traditional interface (IMO) so I've never gotten comfortable with it. > - one of my problems right now is that my contacts info is spread out in > far too many places already -- mutt, evolution, and gmail, not to MH-E provides tab completion for mh aliases. If you take your database and put it in .mh_aliases in this format: user_name1: email_addr1 user_name2: email_addr2 you can start typing the user_name, hit tab and see the completions.