>>>>> "rader" == rader <ra...@hep.wisc.edu> writes:
>> oh, wow. My wife still hates me because I pushed her from elm to
>> mutt. (She hated pine more than mutt)
rader> Would your wife like using vim + groff instead of MSWord or
rader> OpenOffice Writer or Google Docs?? :)
Well... she pretty much hates all of these things.
(no, not groff, but latex)
rader> I'm not attempting to appeal to the masses. I am
rader> creating/have created a MH/nmh front end in perl + curses
rader> that is very fast, vaguely emulates EXMH, does not use a
rader> mouse, is Vim-ish and has GTK+ colorization.
I'll try her on it then. I think it will appeal to her.
>> How is the interface to folders? My wife has hundreds of
>> folders.
rader> At startup, the cost is reading ~/Mail/.folders.
rader> Navigating/changing folders is also done via "+FOLDER" or
rader> ":FOLDER" (think Vim "colon command"), which includes tab
rader> completion, almost no cost. No folder listing is displayed
rader> until asked for ("folders mode", where folders are listed in
rader> the lower pane that usually displays "show" output.)
rader> Invoking folders mode costs reading the .mh_sequences file
rader> for each folder. I have around 800 folders. I hide all but
rader> ~100 by not listing them in .folders. (They all are still
rader> accessable, of course.)
cool... so is .folders compatible with running "folders >Mail/.folders"
nightly from cron?
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