From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Duke Normandin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:01:13 GMT Message-ID: References: <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291951810 28477 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 03:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:30:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 04:30:06 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQtgG-0006BC-6p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQtg8-0006xO-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:29:52 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps83.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-X-Sender: dnormandin@select-man.Bytes2Go.com In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.154.105.237 Original-X-Trace: edtnps83 1285642873 75.154.105.237 (Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:01:13 MDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:01:13 MDT Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181515 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:08 -0500 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:77274 Archived-At: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, David Combs wrote: > In article <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, > Francis Moreau wrote: > >Hello, > > > >After more than 2 years of gnus daily usage, I've finally decided to > >give up :(: too much pain, too much trouble, too much complex, too > >slow and too much wasted time. Gnus has definitively not been designed > >for me. > > > >So I'd like to find something else to use (and I'm sure it should > >exist because I'm pretty convinced that I'm not the only one in this > >case) to read my emails and news groups. > > > >I started to use Gnus because I run emacs in terminal mode and I want > >to do so when reading my emails/articles. I also want to use emacs to > >compose them. > > > >From my point of view, the most important features are: stability/ > >robustness, speed and last but not the least usability. I think > >Thunderbird has them but unfortunately it doesn't have a terminal mode > >and can't use emacs in terminal mode to compose emails (yes it can > >with emacs in window mode but it's quite hackish). > > > >Could the emacs users give me some alternatives ? > > > >Thanks > > Then trn4 is for you. Try it; you will definitely like it. > > You will especially like the "t" command, that draws a 2-dim > graph of the current thread, showing where you "are" in it, > thus making it easier to traverse back into the tree. Or the OP could try `Alpine', the successor to Pine. Although you are not working in emacs, I personally have `Alpine' use emacs as the alternate editor. As well, `Alpine' natively does NGs very well, IMO. No fuss; no muss; no bother! Worth a shot! -- Duke