From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11744 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus and pine Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:38:59 +0100 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229686878 23900 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2008 11:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:41:18 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 12:42:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDdkM-0005SB-JW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDdjA-0005TN-Bx for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:41:08 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp10-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HuA+yivieVndo2h5NiX8o1CrK5c= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Dec 2008 12:39:00 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.240.200.149 Original-X-Trace: 1229686740 news-4.free.fr 9076 82.240.200.149:49958 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82002 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11744 Archived-At: Frédéric Perrin writes: > Le Jeudi 18 à 22:55, harven a écrit : >> Xavier Maillard writes: >>> harven 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 »