From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:50:39 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87d45vhcuo.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255369518 8788 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 17:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:45:18 +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 12 19:45:08 2009 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 1MxOxH-0000RB-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:45:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOxH-0007r1-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:45:07 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/qoWYKLTU7ASFyNsFdmpC0GdByo7KYZ2cJTWAXFq1IXIv0Yi0KmFp/POFxtIFFzBh6gOXewqEhNqUDkY/A8mkD0yqvDT4Nvl+xXXik6F6q+RCES3OZFriNwE9k83uw3ieBb6P3QmgzKw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:50:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18WHXvo7Sh3n7J4zFHI3g4SYq0+Cpia4eQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:kW4fJPedmpqclx8bnlgGXCIpTTE= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173803 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:68893 Archived-At: Joost Kremers writes: > David Combs wrote: >> Question: I use mutt on my isp-shell-account, and like it, >> and use .1% of its capability (I think, so powerful is it). >> Has anyone switched from mutt to emacs (temporarily or not)? >> Comments? > > I did, a couple of years ago, switching to mutt+slrn to Gnus. I ended up > switching back after a month or so. > > Gnus for news is fine, slrn works in much the same way, but I couldn't get used > to Gnus' handling of email. Gnus treats every mail folder in the same way that > it does a news group, and I simply couldn't get used to that. In what way did that differ from how you use any other email client?