Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?
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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