Just to throw in my $0.02... I use gmail most of the time, and I have a few filters to auto-partition into a directory structure I like which combines github and google groups emails. If I could no longer do this I would be disappointed.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Mauro <[email protected]> wrote: > I second Tamas: a good email interface is a must. This seems to be > lacking currently: > https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140 > > On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:32, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote: > > > >> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using > the > >> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I always > >> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'. > > > > I don't see an alternative given my preferences --- as I said, I don't > > want to deal with different web interfaces. Also, sometimes I work > > offline. > > > >> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no > indentation, no > >> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you > >> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup? > > > > Fixed width font takes care of indentation. For short code snippets, I > > can live without highlighting, for longer code I prefer if people post > > it as a gist. > > > > Best, > > > > Tamas >
