From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vagn Johansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs vs vs.net Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:35:18 +0100 Organization: TDC Totalloesninger Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> <87ekwvu4x3.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> <87d6ce6yrl.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067629658 16550 80.91.224.253 (31 Oct 2003 19:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 20:47:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFfFA-0004FI-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:47:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFfDX-0004pV-IP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:45:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9i3kJ0IUxuUddz9yaU2szQ6ApKI= Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.196.132.34 Original-X-Trace: 1067628983 dread14.news.tele.dk 9759 80.196.132.34:3754 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117768 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13704 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13704 Jason Earl writes: > Vagn Johansen writes: > >> That should have been "Gnus does NOT support searching in multiple >> groups." > > For searching I use find and grep :). Well, then all mail readers that store mail messages as text files ".. has all sorts of tools for plowing through huge piles of email" (as you write). > I wade through hundreds of emails a day (not counting spam). For me > the biggest advantages of Gnus over other email clients I have used is > the ability to quickly skim through groups without having to touch the > mouse. 'k' will kill useless threads, space will page through a > message 'A n' adds a task to my planner.el files (with a link to the > message in question). I have been looking for a way of creating a "task" (with reminder) based on a gnus message, but have not found anything useful yet. I tried nndiary, but could not get it working. I tried planner.el but it did not seem to be able to give a good overview of added tasks ("A n"). I will look at it a bit further. > Lately I have been thinking about adding in > Remembrance agent http://www.remem.org/ to the mix. I used the Remembrance Agent for a short period a few years back. I did not have it running all the time, I just activated it to perform a search in some of my text files. It was written in C, so it was not easy to add support for new file types. That is probably why I gave up using it. > I suppose if I used my inbox as a knowledge base I might be more > interested in searching. Even so, Gnus has some pretty compelling > tools. I don't consider find and grep to be Gnus tools, if that is what you mean. All my emails are a knowledge base along with a lot of small text files I write. I am planning to convert my text files into emacs-wiki files for easier navigation. Searching is important to me, that is why I am working on my own search software to search Gnus mails and a lot of other file types: txt, html, mp3, doc, etc. I tried nnir.el/swish but that is very primitive. Even Outlook Express is a lot better. (In fairness: swish *does* create an index, so it very fast).