Re: gnus and pine

[harven]

Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@resel.fr> writes:

> 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.

Then I guess the answer is « I decided to use $foo instead of $bar + $foo
because $foo can do whatever $bar can do, after some customization »