From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85925 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: storing messages into an mbox file Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 10:06:04 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87r3r45b4c.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87y4lc10lt.fsf@igel.home> <878uda689b.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87fv7iofuz.fsf@igel.home> <87zj5q4jxn.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <877fsu78k8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wq0olwl9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87h9rskhio.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87pp6cj854.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <87y4kz5sqb.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87egmpq00q.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <877fsgzjvn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431418043 12909 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2015 08:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:07:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34160@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 12 10:07:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys5DZ-0002FA-LV for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 10:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys5Cv-0003b5-8F; Tue, 12 May 2015 03:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys5Cs-0003ak-Ax for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 May 2015 03:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys5Cq-0001LY-IQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 May 2015 03:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys5Co-0005Xe-HS for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 10:06:22 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys5Cl-0001xv-P5 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 10:06:19 +0200 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 10:06:19 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by rainey.bang.priv.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 10:06:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rainey.bang.priv.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eG1J/z8QdZKOgJAL6ArpAWBUuO8= X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85925 Archived-At: >>>>> Eric S Fraga : > I sympathise. I have had feelings like this in the dim past. Every > time I did, I switched to another MUA (pine, mutt, Thunderbird, gmail, > even Outlook very briefly) only to come back when I hit the > limitations of the other MUAs. Only mutt lasted for more than a few > months, and that was because I could use Emacs easily as the > composition editor. One thing that always annoys me in another MUA is the lack of search when I need it. In Gnus I can always use emacs' full text search capabilities in any buffer (articles, summaries and groups). And I have full regexp replace without entering complicated dialog boxes when composing messages.