Frédéric Perrin <[email protected]> writes: > Le Jeudi 18 à 22:55, harven a écrit : >> Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> writes: >>> harven <[email protected]> writes: >>>> I recently switched from Pine to Gnus as a mail reader. >>>> I wrote a quick tutorial on the emacs wiki to make Gnus behave a >>>> little more like Pine : >>>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/GnusAndPine >>> >>> I am wondering why you made the switch. >> >> I have used Pine for some years now, and it was nice, albeit for the >> fact that Pine has a built-in editor which is pretty limited when it >> comes to localisation, formatting, completion and else. So I began to >> use emacs as an external editor. After a while, it felt a bit strange >> to spawn big emacs from little pine, when often there was already some >> emacs instance hanging around. So I started looking for another way to >> check my mail. Gnus is pine-compatible, that is, it can read and write >> in the pine mailbox, and it is provided with emacs, so I gave it a >> try. > > I guess the question was « why do you use $foo when you want $bar's > behaviour ? ». Also, have you looked at emacsclient ? It enables you to > reuse a existing emacs, spawning it in a new buffer.
Then I guess the answer is « I decided to use $foo instead of $bar + $foo because $foo can do whatever $bar can do, after some customization » _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
