From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Org-mode as a replacement for Google Reader Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:04 -0400 Message-ID: <9138.1364315524@alphaville> References: <2013-03-26T13-37-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2013-03-26T15-53-35@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWnJ-0005xt-7A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWnF-0002w4-Jm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:17 -0400 Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:45602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWnF-0002sE-E8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Fabrice Popineau of "Tue\, 26 Mar 2013 16\:42\:55 BST." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Fabrice Popineau Cc: news1142@karl-voit.at, "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Fabrice Popineau wrote: > Lately I have seen many people reporting to be afraid of Gnus configurati= on. > There is nothing to be afraid of there. It is a bit like Org : you=C2=A0 > can keep it simple and short or very long and complex. > Gnus is definitely the best mail/news/(rss) reader I have used. > But there are 2 big drawbacks for me: > - Emacs is not multi-threaded and if you use Gnus heavily, it is painful > not being able to type in a window while Gnus is sorting out your stuff I don't use Gnus for anything other than news (and I read very little of that nowadays). But I'm on IRC using ERC and I run a second emacs instance just for that, while my main instance is where I live most of the time: maybe a second emacs instance would work for your use case? > - I wish Emacs to be able to actually render HTML in a buffer (w3m not=C2= =A0 > a valid option under Windows at least) >=20 Under Linux, w3m is usable (just barely) but like all text browsers, it works better with text-heavy pages without too many bells and whistles: certainly not a substitute for a full-blown browser. Re: Windows - the web page says it's available on Windows (with Cygwin): is that not true? Nick