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: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:51:38 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> <37578bed-d355-4adf-aae1-319c9f002ecf@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255369622 9184 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 17:47:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:47:02 +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 19:46:53 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 1MxOyx-0001Q1-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:46:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOyx-0000s3-C9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:46:51 -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: 31 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/qoNg1jUbl+qKTmVYr+bQlUVMnx5kdxaivmg+71+0aUc2koHPGMM2NjUb8bxLoQZfxow/vryRRSSLGYVL8hxq27JvDkvDQX3A5zQx6ZZT+qYru3BCayrhap0b4Y762sMgTjaD9mxKZ+w== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:51:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18/B1GSalikiM16qBJm/IM8j2Li9de8qSQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:XyTShHCR4kVT3i4P0AjIKca4v7s= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173804 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:68894 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > On Oct 12, 2:56 pm, Richard Riley wrote: >> Jeff Clough writes: >> > From: Francis Moreau >> > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT) >> >> >> On Sep 9, 4:55 am, Bastien wrote: >> >> >> Don't get me wrong, I use GNUS (maybe because I spent so much time in >> >> it, I don't want to admit I was wrong ;) but you must be ready to >> >> spent some time to configure it and to adopt it and I'm wondering if >> >> it really worth the trouble specially if the OP is not interested in >> >> news group... >> >> > It wasn't worth it.  I use Mew for mail and it works just fine.  Well, >> > as good as Emacs works under Windows at all. >> >> I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by >> mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation, >> spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all >> works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because >> of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish >> to emacs). But it was worth it. > > But you probably get the same benefits with Mew... heh! I read "mutt". Mew is more of a cat than a mutt :-) -- googletalk/jabber : rileyrgdev@googlemail.com