Le Jeudi 18 à 22:55, harven a écrit : > Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> writes: >> harven <[email protected]> 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. -- Fred _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
