Re: gnus and pine

[Frédéric Perrin]

Le Jeudi 18 à 22:55, harven a écrit :
> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
>> harven <harven@free.fr> 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