From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: For users not programmers with very little, maybe a smattering of experience, how do you setup gnus for reading email?... Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <878x1kwjuz.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205644308 9778 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2008 05:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:11:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 16 06:12:17 2008 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 1JalAO-0004I0-EP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:12:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jal9o-0002aO-EN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:11:40 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1205630485 5623 166.84.1.1 (16 Mar 2008 01:21:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:21:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157067 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:11:11 -0400 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:52439 Archived-At: Myself, I do not use gnus. I don't even know its benefits. What I do use is TRN4, and I can't imagine what features or whatever I'd want to make it better. Nor can I imagine a better newsreader. Please, is there someone there who has used trn4 more than once or twice? If so, could that person tell me why gnus is so superior? That'd be really nice. And for mail I use mutt. Works for me. What's nice about each is they don't require a windowing and mouse system, but need only essentially what vi needs. (emacs is of course wonderful indeed. I, like probably everyone else here, "live in" emacs, hardly having to ^Z or go to some other window (emacs-term: frame) dtterm. Heck, I'll keep up an emacs for a *long* time. But still, it's trn4 and mutt for me -- so far). Thanks! David