+1 here from another Org and Gnus user who couldn't really get org-feed.el to work as an RSS reader, but loves Gnus+Gwene.
Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr> writes: > Lately I have seen many people reporting to be afraid of Gnus > configuration. > There is nothing to be afraid of there. It is a bit like Org : you > can keep it simple and short or very long and complex. > Gnus is definitely the best mail/news/(rss) reader I have used. > But there are 2 big drawbacks for me: > - Emacs is not multi-threaded and if you use Gnus heavily, it is > painful > not being able to type in a window while Gnus is sorting out your > stuff > - I wish Emacs to be able to actually render HTML in a buffer (w3m > not > a valid option under Windows at least) > > Fabrice Fabrice, recent Gnusae have a built-in HTML renderer which even (somewhat) handles CSS. try (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'shr). Incidentally, here is also newsticker.el.