From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:38:16 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <874ph1fton.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <87wstz33hw.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191865241 21087 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2007 17:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:40:41 +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 08 19:40:39 2007 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 1Iewaq-0004KT-Ps for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iewal-0006Ac-9Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1191861667 11655 132.183.29.121 (8 Oct 2007 16:41:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:41:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WRtnjr+OZOadNqDUVLtnSfmrJF8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152710 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:48216 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > Tim X writes: > > > [...] > >> >> The 'heavy weight' is Gnus. I've looked at it, but to be honest, it has a >> very very steep learning curve and will take a fair bit to configure. I use >> Gnus for reading newsgroups and it is excellent at that. It is probably OK >> for mail and lots of people love it, but I personally never felt >> comfortable with it and at times, it took a lot of work to find out how to >> do something which is normally fairly trivial. [...] Gnus does so many things that this is the one Emacs mode where I regularly use the menus. I always have the reference card (which is six pages long) nearby. > Sometimes in my saner moments, I do wonder why I use Gnus. :-) > > I can't recall why I decided on Gnus (now, living dangerously, on the > CVS version) but it worked the first time I tried. For me, the first time I failed miserably at using it, but now I have gotten it to work and I love it. It just goes toward making the all-in-one sickness progress. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109