Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:59:28 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: kalum AT roadrunner DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Sort error in mailclient (!!!!) In-Reply-To: <200006300817.LAA05799@mailgw1.netvision.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, The awesome and feared Eli Zaretskii commented thusly, > > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:56:09 +0600 (LKT) > > From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel > > > > On the other hand if you really want s *good* mailer not that utter > > bugridden thrash that M$ likes to offer, please consider getting Pegasus > > Mail (it is free) or PC Pine (also free). > > I'd expect from the users of this forum to recommend Emacs instead ;-) Ahh..I should have done it..the thing is that when you use Emacs as a editor for a long time you tend to think of it as a editor and forget that it has many other functionalities.. > It has several alternative email interfaces (I'm using one of them, as > you can see from the headers of this message). Indeed...But I think that the learning curve might be a bit more steep for emacs than other dedicated mailers like PINE etc.. FWIW I had some problems about getting to use RMAIL but with Eli's help I got it right, which shows that if you have someone who nows the stuff to help you then using and learning it is fun, otherwise it is a PITA to try to find it yourself... > In my experience, it helps tremendously to have the same familiar > editor and UI at your fingertips when reading mail. For example, I > can easily compile a sample program someone posts, look up a function > docs in libc.info, search the FAQ, look inside a zip file--all without > leaving the editor and having the mail message in front of me at all > times. hmm..but in the wonderful world of X you can have emacs running and have another(as many) window(s) open with PINE and looking at your mesasge etc... In the terminal world however what you say is certainly true... > Btw, AFAIK, Pegasus is not free in the Free Software meaning (the > sources are not freely available). Yes that is correct, which was what made me switch to PINE and IMHO PINE is simply the best! Kalum Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)