On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:04:09AM +0200, lee wrote: > XeCycle <xecy...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, I've been using mutt for several months, and I like >> it. >> >> However I'm an Emacs fan, so I tried Gnus, but failed... it >> really is not a mail client. But Gnus can be easily extended >> with Emacs Lisp, which is a killer feature compared to mutt. > > After using mutt for about 15+ years, I recently switched to gnus. It > may take some reading of the documentation and some trying to get > started, and the documentation is a little overwhelming at > first. Nonetheless I'm finding it extremely worthwhile even though I > have only just begun to explore the possibilities. > > Gnus has one big disadvantage: It can be awfully slow.
Yes... It's more than *awfully* slow. Now I use it as a newsreader, subscribing several groups at gmane and also some RSS feeds. Mixing them with mail will probably be even more slow, which is also a reason for my insisting on mutt. > Mutt is awesome and totally reliable; gnus is awesome and extremely > powerful. (I can't tell yet how reliable gnus is.) Recently I'm also trying Chromium; I use Firefox with Pentadactyl now. In Chromium, I didn't find anything comparable to Vimperator/Pentadactyl, but it's much faster than Firefox. Well, these comparisons are similar. > One of the things I missed very much with mutt was seamless integration > with emacs. You can only get pretty close. Since you're an emacs fan, > you might want to give gnus another, very serious try rather than > waiting 15 years or so before you switch :) Thanks for your advice, I will try it if I have the time. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 Facebook: Carl Lei Twitter: XeCycle Blog: http://xecycle.blogspot.com Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:04:52 +0800
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