[UFO Chicago] Re: On Ion and Mail clients...

[Charles G Waldman]

Ian Bicking writes:

 > But, as long as I'm doing this, I figured I might as well rethink other 
 > things in my computer usage.  My main applications now are: XEmacs (happily), 
 > rxvt (sufficient), Galeon (happy -- I tried Phoenix and liked it, but I still 
 > prefer Galeon), and Evolution.  Leaving out command-line applications, that's 
 > 95% of my application usage (well, probably more). 
 > 
 > Does someone know of a mail program that I should be using?  I'm very open to 
 > novel interfaces.

If you're already a happy XEmacs user, why not read your mail in
XEmacs?  There are several email clients - VM if you want something
fairly simple, or Gnus if you are into the arcane (I've never been
able to quite get over the setup/learning curve of Gnus, but I know
that it is more feature-rich than VM.  But VM does everything I need)

 > (Oh... and does a novel terminal emulator even exist?

How about M-x tshell ?

Keep it all in XEmacs and then you don't even need a window manager -
just start one full-screen XEmacs frame, and all of your navigation 
can be done from the keyboard ;-)  Too bad W3 (XEmacs embedded web
browser) is so slow... of course with fast enough hardware that can be
solved.  It would also be way cool if somebody used the Gecko engine
to embed a browser into the Gtk branch of XEmacs...