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: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3d6bce8c-82aa-42ca-bc9a-0a641a7a31d7@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> References: <37578bed-d355-4adf-aae1-319c9f002ecf@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <8763ak8rjv.fsf@fh-trier.de> 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 1255639264 13452 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2009 20:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:41:04 +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 Oct 15 22:40:54 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 1MyX7t-00047b-N7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:40:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MyX7t-0007g1-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1255636767 24438 127.0.0.1 (15 Oct 2009 19:59:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090905 Fedora/3.0.14-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173917 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:69000 Archived-At: On 13 oct, 15:58, Richard Riley wrote: > Jeff Clough writes: > > From: Andreas Politz > > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:36 +0200 > > >> Francis Moreau writes: > > >>> On Oct 12, 2:56=A0pm, Richard Riley wrote: > >>>> I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled b= y > >>>> 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 beca= use > >>>> of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being ne= wish > >>>> to emacs). But it was worth it. > > >>> But you probably get the same benefits with Mew... > > > Every Emacs feature I've wanted and tried to use works very well with > > Mew, or at least no worse than to be expected under Windows. > > >> So what is your experience with Mew concerning ease of setup, huge mai= l > >> boxes, message threading and general performance ? > > > Setting up Mew was several orders of magnitude easier than setting up > > Gnus, which I was never able to successfully do. =A0A good part of this > > What part were you unable to do? Did you have it reading mail at all? > BTW, one thing is really annoying with gnus is that it screw all my current window configuration (window layout) when I start composing a new article/mail. I did (setq gnus-use-full-window nil) but gnus always use a full window when writing a new mail. Do you have/know any setup which could fix this behaviour ? thanks