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: More emacs instances Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:20:54 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <8762ze8w6k.fsf@mean.albasani.net> <87wrrutus5.fsf@mean.albasani.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281974474 1274 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2010 16:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:01:14 +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 Aug 16 18:01:12 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 1Ol27Y-0006Nh-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:01:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ol1tI-0005Xs-UX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32910 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ol1pc-0004CD-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol1Up-0005Kg-DW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol1Up-0005KY-2v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol1Uo-0003E2-6j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:21:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74676 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti writes: > Richard Riley writes: >> >> I dont know how much you can trust it. I trust it implicitly as I have >> been using it without issue for a while. > > I'm also trying now, offlineimap is not so fast as I thought (well > enough of course) but it's pretty cool. > I should get used to gnus as mail program, and maybe I would better > separate news reading from normal email. The point of using gnus is bring them closer together. I like it all being in one UI. And the emacs one at that. Use gnus-posting-styles for your different nicks/email addresses relevant to the groups you are reading. Use gnus topics for logical separation. Use msmtp for posting emails from different smtp servers. > > There are many other packages (mew wanderlust for example), any advice? > I also need to integrate it with the mac address book for example, (use > contacts command already). >> >> I open the bitlbee server as I do freenode and they all live happily in >> the same frame. erc then handles chats with gtalk etc (via bitlbee) as >> it does all standard #irc channels. > > Yes I also noticed it can do many things and already configured them. > The thing is that I'm used to see very easily who's online and from > how simply by colors, this interface is a much more poor... > > Maybe it's time to use my growl integration function ;) > Bitlbee tells you whose online for gtalk anyway : blist. Admittedly automagically. But I'm sure there are other panel type apps which can do that.