From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:07:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> <45CBA71B.3030307@gmail.com> <87fy9fw5l8.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87lkj6utfc.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171120046 19526 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 15:07:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Pascal Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 16:07:19 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 1HFtor-0001jc-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:07:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFtor-0005cM-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:07:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFtoe-0005cG-Nj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFtoc-0005bd-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFtoc-0005bY-30 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.238]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HFtob-0004qS-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 71so1248644wri for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:07:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Bts1qF5vmgDfeXxsglcS651sQmpvkKirR94QRRDbmQZ5/bm4aE11DyrriflqlSvkIGgfzF3C8Aytsw7Ok3Gff3tuPuDIz684NLwsAdT3WdLkym2MA6RU24IJudV4MtGVYZcB1aKuR2pcubcJRp0uARpSYWZjxsARoohecjLt+fQ= Original-Received: by 10.114.152.17 with SMTP id z17mr6449365wad.1171120020576; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:07:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.114.234.16 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:07:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lkj6utfc.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:41065 Archived-At: On 2/10/07, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > So what? Having to look for external packages adds complexity. We were discussing the easiness of configuring Emacs to read and write e-mail on Windows. From "set these variables" to "download that package and set it up" there's a big jump. /L/e/k/t/u