Re: [SLE] not SUSE, emacs
Francesco <fgs@epulse.net> writes:
I have been considering using emacs for mail etc etc as I spend much of my time in it.
I'm using Gnus with _great_ satisfaction. It would now be painful for me to do without it. The user interface is not as flashy as in some other tools, but I'll trade off some chrome for a better engine, any time! :-) Of course, there is the Babyl reader (called RMAIL) in Emacs, but you then have to work a bit hard to integrate MIME and other modern features. Gnus seems to be a much better bet. Yet, here, I should be honest enough to say I'm using both: Gnus for incoming mail, RMAIL for most archive folders. I wrote some interfacing code so opening a Babyl file automatically triggers the Gnus reader on it, so I may have a bit of the best of both worlds...
1) Any thoughts on emacs v xemacs
This is a delicate question, as there is a bit of a religious war between both. I'm using Emacs now, and gave XEmacs a serious try, but not recently. XEmacs was significantly slowing down on me while handling big files, to the point of irritation. Maybe it is just OK with small files -- but I do have many big email folders. RMAIL was not well supported either, and at the time of my try, I had `TM' (another MIME processor) in the way. On the other hand, XEmacs is much more appealing if you consider its user interface.
2) How easy (am an relative newbie) is it to configure mail for these. Am currently using kmail, via smtp.
Admittedly, Gnus is not easy to get started. I believe it is worth the effort, given mail is central in your work. (It is for me, as I turn a good deal of the information I keep into messages, if not already.) I could offer you my configuration files, but I confess they might appear overwhelming, as I tuned Gnus a lot towards my own habits and desires. You could join the `ding' mailin list if you feel ready to honestly do your good share of the work. There is a lot of competent and helping people there, but the list is more meant for involved people than pure beginners. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
François Pinard writes:
Francesco <fgs@epulse.net> writes:
I have been considering using emacs for mail etc etc as I spend much of my time in it.
I'm using Gnus with _great_ satisfaction. It would now be painful for me to do without it. The user interface is not as flashy as in some other tools, but I'll trade off some chrome for a better engine, any time! :-)
Of course, there is the Babyl reader (called RMAIL) in Emacs, but you then have to work a bit hard to integrate MIME and other modern features. Gnus seems to be a much better bet. Yet, here, I should be honest enough to say I'm using both: Gnus for incoming mail, RMAIL for most archive folders. I wrote some interfacing code so opening a Babyl file automatically triggers the Gnus reader on it, so I may have a bit of the best of both worlds...
You can't forget VM which has mime support, archiving, virtual folders, x faces, etc, etc, etc. Very easy to use and works with BBDB.
1) Any thoughts on emacs v xemacs
This is a delicate question, as there is a bit of a religious war between both. I'm using Emacs now, and gave XEmacs a serious try, but not recently. XEmacs was significantly slowing down on me while handling big files, to the point of irritation. Maybe it is just OK with small files -- but I do have many big email folders. RMAIL was not well supported either, and at the time of my try, I had `TM' (another MIME processor) in the way. On the other hand, XEmacs is much more appealing if you consider its user interface.
2) How easy (am an relative newbie) is it to configure mail for these. Am currently using kmail, via smtp.
Admittedly, Gnus is not easy to get started. I believe it is worth the effort, given mail is central in your work. (It is for me, as I turn a good deal of the information I keep into messages, if not already.) I could offer you my configuration files, but I confess they might appear overwhelming, as I tuned Gnus a lot towards my own habits and desires.
You could join the `ding' mailin list if you feel ready to honestly do your good share of the work. There is a lot of competent and helping people there, but the list is more meant for involved people than pure beginners.
-- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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