From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5277 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erik Selberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-mh.el Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:38:50 PST Sender: speed@cs.washington.edu Message-ID: <199602241938.LAA06704@wally.cs.washington.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145904 32332 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA17192 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 12:06:13 -0800 Original-Received: from wally.cs.washington.edu (wally.cs.washington.edu [128.95.2.122]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:38:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wally.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.2ws+) with SMTP id LAA06704 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:38:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no's message of 24 Feb 1996 08:44:09 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Gcc: nnfolder+archive:misc-mail Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5277 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5277 > Well, I was thinking about the functions in `gnus-mh' -- > `gnus-mh-mail-setup' and stuff. Many people seem to prefer using the > mh mail mode for composing/sending mail to using the standard sendmail > mail mode. The problem is that the Gnus window configuration thingie > and the draft buffer stuff do not currently interact well with mh-e, > which also fiddles with the window configuration and creates its own > draft group. I'm one of the chief culprits (and probably chief gripe... :). I think the mh-e composing and sending is much better than standard mail, although some things that ding has done recently have made standard mail closer. The things I use from mh-e to compose / send are: + Better alias support (it's easy to have files containing names; the mail system we have here won't allow that) + Checking of recipients (you can ensure you typed in the right alias) + drafts folder so you can compose multiple messages at once (although I guess ding has that now as well) What I think would be a great solution (well, maybe...:) would be to create a totally new mail / post mechanism, overriding both mh-e, mail, and post-news stuff. This way, we can do things right, and make the interface much cleaner. For example, I'd love a mode where I can just add To: and Newsgroups: header and have everything go into the right place. Or stick newsgroup names in the To: field and have that work too! An auto-aliasing thing like what pine has would also be nice. > So I was wondering if somebody could (please!) volunteer to clean that > stuff up somewhat. ok, since I'm chief gripe, I'll see what I can do. -Erik