From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs books (was: Emacs and Lynx Browser) Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 11:32:45 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87hahre75u.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87k3n0z4vj.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <20130516125414.GD14224@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> <87r4gwkvmo.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <874ndsrniw.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369504118 21938 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 17:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:48:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 25 19:48:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgIa6-0006ZG-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:48:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgIa6-0003od-G6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 13:48:38 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wVs5WgtLDdS7KbVNOgj/HtxCJYU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198779 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:48:29 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91044 Archived-At: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) writes: > Then they must have scrapped them in later editions - really, really > stupid, I could not agree more. In mine (the 2nd, maybe??), they > played an important role, and it was precisely the way I was able to > tweak rmail and mail which made Emacs so versatile for me. I still > use them (professionally), and still have no desire for anything > more modern. I can't express how much rmail and Gnus increased my life quality. I have eye problems, and I've always communicated a lot with emails, on forums, and so on, and those mouse-based, GUI clients (not to mention web interfaces) were killing me. The Emacs extensions, on the other hands, were so much faster to use, and 100% configurable (dark, calm themes; shortcuts to reduce typing and overhead time). > Maybe a reason to try to get hold of an old edition. Didn't know that, but will sure check it out. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573