On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:52:04PM -0500, John S J Anderson wrote:
> Anupam Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis C. Candell) writes:
> >
> >> Anupam Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>> Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>> Gnus!
> >>>
> >>> but i am under the impression that you _need_ emacs for gnus to
> >>> run. how can you do it from the command line ?
> >>
> >> emacs -nw -f gnus
> >
> > but that's not the same as mail now is it ?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. The requirement was "CLI mail client
> that does GPG and MailDir". "emacs -nw -f gnus" fits all those
> requirements. So does "xemacs -nw -f gnus".
There is a difference between a command-line application, like
cat, awk, and grep, and an application that runs in a terminal
window. Command-line applications lend themselves to automation
and scripting, but terminal-based applications do not. However,
it is not uncommon for a terminal-based application to support
command-line invocation.
Mutt is a good example. It is a terminal-based application,
which means that you can use it when you are connected remotely
with only a text-based interface (i.e., a terminal). But to use
it in a shell script, you use its command-line capabilities. I
have a Z-shell function in my .zshrc that sends a short message
and any attachments I provide as arguments:
towork () {
msg=$1 ; shift
attachments=""
for a in $@ ; do
attachments=($attachments '-a' "$a")
done
echo -e "$msg\n" | mutt -s "$msg" $attachments \
-e 'set record = ""' \
-e 'set save_name = no' \
-e 'set force_name = no' \
work
}
As you can see, it's quite capable as a command-line utility.
The -e arguments tailor mutt's behavior for this invocation, and
work is an alias in my .muttrc file for my work e-mail address.
While emacs can certainly be used as a terminal application, I'm
not so sure if it is a capable command-line mail client, and I
know that the example command lines mentioned by others were
designed to use it as a terminal application.
- richard
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