On 10 Jan 2005, Nagarjuna G. spake thusly:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:27:23PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Monday 10 Jan 2005 12:12 am, Philip Tellis wrote:
Both these features are supported by pine. You'd think that a modern email client would at least be able to match the feature set of one that's been around for almost 20 years. :P
how come mandrake10 doesnt even have pine on the cds? Had to download the source and compile it!
pine is not free software, since modified pine code or binaries cannot be distributed. please use mutt, which has more features than pine is a free software.
. o O ( ) ( ... Can Pine/Mutt do this ? ... )
Spellcheck on the fly. HTML rendering (w3m). read news and mail :)
and a few more ...
(All the below examples are simple copy paste .. will give you the idea of the amount of integration which is possible. Integration with all that emacs does. And emacs does a hell lot.)
,----[ first few def's of "advanced" via dict ] | From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: | | advanced | adj 1: farther along in physical or mental development; "the | child's skeletal age was classified as `advanced'"; | "children in the advanced classes in elementary school | read far above grade average" | 2: comparatively late in a course of development; "the illness | had reached an advanced stage"; "an advanced state of | exhaustion" [syn: {advanced(a)}] `----
,----[ Example of a quote from a google search done via w3m ] | Gnus Manual - Newest Features | 10.1.7 Newest Features. ... I would like the zombie-page to contain an URL to the source | of the latest version of gnus or some explanation on where to find it. ... | www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/ Gnu/emacs-20.5/html_node/gnus/gnus_258.html - 37k - Cached - Similar pages | `----
,----[ Example Lisp code from an info manual ] | (defmacro with-db (db &body body) | (let ((gbod (gensym))) | `(let ((,gbod #'(lambda () ,@body))) | (declare (dynamic-extent ,gbod)) | (with-db-fn *db* ,db ,gbod)))) `----
,----[ Example quote from a man page ] | NAME | printf - format and print data | | SYNOPSIS | printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]... | printf OPTION | | DESCRIPTION | NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf which will | supercede the version described here. Please refer to your shell's doc- | umentation for details about the options it supports. | | Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT. `----
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