Re: [O] Nice blog post - Org-mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil

[Rainer M. Krug]

François Pinard <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Rainer M. Krug) writes:
>
>> Sanity - never heard of it. I am giving gnus a few weeks and then I wil
>> see - I think I am getting used to it (*not* understanding it!)
>
> Hi Rainer!
>
> I surely tried many mail user agents (MUAs) in my life and, sad to say
> :-), Gnus is undoubtedly the most featured and flexible, while being the
> one which best respects various standards in the field.
>
> If I write "sad to say", this is because Gnus coupled me more intimately
> with Emacs, while I tried hard to run away of it, to recover some sanity.
> To no avail: after many years of abstinence, and with reluctance and
> dismay, Org got me back in it.  Org is so good that I could not resist.

I used org more or less exclusively for literate programming in R, and I
never really got used to emacs and elisp - but even though, org kept me
with emacs - I don't want to miss org and babel with ess when writing
code! And now it is gnus...

>
> In the meantime, despite I found some MUAs quite impressive, I knew deep
> down that none really match Gnus.  So, when Org thrown me back in Emacs,
> and given Org and Gnus integrate rather well with one another, Gnus was
> the next logical step, which I do not regret yet.

After two days, I was frustrated with gnus, andstarted thunderbird
again... When after five minutes thunderbird was still unresponsive and
using one of my two cores, I decided that's it - gnus is so much faster
and when I search with notmuch, I have everything I need for now (well -
next step is the google calendar...).

>
> A tiny example from yesterday.  Knowing that Google Reader is soon going
> to leave us, and after a few other unsatisfying tries, I finally opted
> for Gwene + Gnus, and found out that the UI is even more efficient than
> Google Reader, at least for me, to sort out what I want to read and what
> I want to ignore.  Some groups (Hacker News is typical) only yield links
> in Gnus, with no text.  It took me about one hour (my Gnus programming
> is rather rusty) for adding a Gnus command opening many tabs at once, in
> a graphical browser, for all articles I retain in Gnus for reading.

Interesting. But As I read my news mainly on my iPad at home (to not
distract me even more from work then gnus is already doing) I am trying feedly.
 
>
> I do not see any other environment in which such tiny projects would
> stay reasonably small and tractable.

Well - at the moment I don't see the end of gnus yet...

Cheers and happy orging,

Rainer

>
> François
>
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