From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 13:12:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E52E37B412 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8PKCQm57269; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen X-X-Sender: To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Cliff Sarginson , Subject: Re: Looking for Mr good mail archiver port...[OT ?] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010925131156.D57257-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG re xemacs, I saw a thread on freebsd-ports, it may be discontinued as a supported port soon. Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On 25 Sep 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > If you can't find a tool that meets your needs, you might try learning > XEmacs with Gnus. I don't see a lot of searching support -- there's > a function for searching the messages or headers of the current folder. > But you'll learn a wee bit of elisp and make it do anything you want. > There's a ton of functions already available to use and modify (and > learn from) and so you might not have write much new elisp to do what > you want. I must warn you that there's a lot to learn to get Gnus up > and running in a reasonably-customized way, though. There's gobs of > customization variables to play with, though XEmacs has a nice menu > scheme which can handle most of it if you want to use that. You'll > need to learn the emacs Info system and use it a LOT. Beats man pages. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message