François Pinard <pin...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > rai...@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug) writes: > >> Sanity - never heard of it. I am giving gnus a few weeks and then I wil >> see - I think I am getting used to it (*not* understanding it!) > > Hi Rainer! > > I surely tried many mail user agents (MUAs) in my life and, sad to say > :-), Gnus is undoubtedly the most featured and flexible, while being the > one which best respects various standards in the field. > > If I write "sad to say", this is because Gnus coupled me more intimately > with Emacs, while I tried hard to run away of it, to recover some sanity. > To no avail: after many years of abstinence, and with reluctance and > dismay, Org got me back in it. Org is so good that I could not resist.
I used org more or less exclusively for literate programming in R, and I never really got used to emacs and elisp - but even though, org kept me with emacs - I don't want to miss org and babel with ess when writing code! And now it is gnus... > > In the meantime, despite I found some MUAs quite impressive, I knew deep > down that none really match Gnus. So, when Org thrown me back in Emacs, > and given Org and Gnus integrate rather well with one another, Gnus was > the next logical step, which I do not regret yet. After two days, I was frustrated with gnus, andstarted thunderbird again... When after five minutes thunderbird was still unresponsive and using one of my two cores, I decided that's it - gnus is so much faster and when I search with notmuch, I have everything I need for now (well - next step is the google calendar...). > > A tiny example from yesterday. Knowing that Google Reader is soon going > to leave us, and after a few other unsatisfying tries, I finally opted > for Gwene + Gnus, and found out that the UI is even more efficient than > Google Reader, at least for me, to sort out what I want to read and what > I want to ignore. Some groups (Hacker News is typical) only yield links > in Gnus, with no text. It took me about one hour (my Gnus programming > is rather rusty) for adding a Gnus command opening many tabs at once, in > a graphical browser, for all articles I retain in Gnus for reading. Interesting. But As I read my news mainly on my iPad at home (to not distract me even more from work then gnus is already doing) I am trying feedly. > > I do not see any other environment in which such tiny projects would > stay reasonably small and tractable. Well - at the moment I don't see the end of gnus yet... Cheers and happy orging, Rainer > > François > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
