Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?
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2005/10/19, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:59:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles.
> >
> > I'd like verification of that. I remember my first run in with unix back
> > in my Netcom days. Even then screen was around. That was 10 years ago.
> >
> > If, and that's a big if, emacs were able to do the semi-virtual CLI thing
> > prior to screen (specialized tools and all that) I'd think it wouldn't be more
> > than a year's lead.
> >
> > > The world has changed since then. Ancient design decisions go obsolete.
> > > I'm using emacs inside my mail reader, instead of the other way around.
> >
> > And yet we still, in today's day and age, have people pointing others to
> > gnus as a viable mail client. Hate to say it but if gnus were so wonderful in
> > today's day and age it would be split out so everyone could use it, not just
> > emacs people. I understand that gnus takes a lot from emacs internals but
> > that is certainly not insurmountable else we'd have a far smaller
> > proliferation of clients.
>
> I *definitely* remember using emacs like this. I do not remember what
> operating system it was on. It may well have been 15 years ago.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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