From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <37578bed-d355-4adf-aae1-319c9f002ecf@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255359737 3507 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 15:02:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:02:17 +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 Oct 12 17:02:07 2009 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 1MxMMK-0004xt-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:58:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxMMJ-00005d-Lc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:58:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.232.205 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1255354812 4318 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2009 13:40:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.41.232.205; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 grimoire.wyplay.int:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE14) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061118 Fedora/3.0.11-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173798 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:68886 Archived-At: On Oct 12, 2:56=A0pm, Richard Riley wrote: > Jeff Clough writes: > > From: Francis Moreau > > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT) > > >> On Sep 9, 4:55=A0am, Bastien wrote: > > >> Don't get me wrong, I use GNUS (maybe because I spent so much time in > >> it, I don't want to admit I was wrong ;) but you must be ready to > >> spent some time to configure it and to adopt it and I'm wondering if > >> it really worth the trouble specially if the OP is not interested in > >> news group... > > > It wasn't worth it. =A0I use Mew for mail and it works just fine. =A0We= ll, > > as good as Emacs works under Windows at all. > > I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by > mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation, > spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all > works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because > of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish > to emacs). But it was worth it. But you probably get the same benefits with Mew...