From: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what has the face `message-separator' *really* done for us?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:34:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86va0c70u2.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1h6q4k-00057a-Ku@eggs.gnu.org
Xavier Maillard wrote:
>> But Message mode is not only used by Gnus
>> people, but also by people with the poor
>> taste of using Rmail, the so-called "primary
>> Emacs mail-reader" according to RMS. [1]
>
> I have tried many MUAs in the past and Rmail
> is just the perfect tool for my needs ;)
>
> I particularily like the simplicity and the
> fact it does not come with many distractions.
> Thus, when reading my mails, I am really
> focusing on that task: reading my mail ^^
Well, no one, at least not I, is saying no one
cannot use Rmail.
But that quote [1] is incorrect. *Both* Rmail
and Gnus comes with vanilla Emacs, and Gnus is
a hundred times more powerful than Rmail.
Maybe Gnus wasn't around when RMS said/wrote
that? Or maybe it was the old, pre-Ingebrigtsen
GNUS? Or maybe he (RMS) just didn't
know about/cared for either one?
In any case, the quote is incorrect as it
stands. I think it should be removed from the
EmacsWiki, but I'm not about to start an
edit-war for the sake of it.
[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rmail
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-09/msg00328.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-21 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-16 15:51 what has the face `message-separator' *really* done for us? Emanuel Berg
2019-03-16 16:57 ` Damien Collard
2019-03-17 1:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-17 7:02 ` Damien Collard
2019-03-17 13:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-17 14:22 ` Damien Collard
2019-03-17 19:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-17 20:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-21 5:17 ` Xavier Maillard
2019-03-21 14:34 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2019-03-26 11:03 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Van L
2019-03-26 14:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-27 0:26 ` Van L
2019-03-27 0:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-17 20:08 ` Damien Collard
2019-03-17 20:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-17 20:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-17 21:15 ` Damien Collard
2019-03-18 2:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-06-22 10:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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