Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Tassilo Horn]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Alan,

>> > o - They must, like Emacs, be fully usable on a text console
>> > without a mouse as well as in X.  There are at least 3 hackers here
>> > who prefer such a setup.
>
>> This *does* have a technical solution: lynx.  Or links.  Text-mode
>> browsers aren't what I'd call pleasant compared to graphical ones,
>> but they are usable.

emacs-w3m is quite good.  I already used it to file some bug reports at
the kde and gentoo bugzillas.

> A web browser is for browsing the web, and is pretty cruddy for
> anything else.  For email you'd use mutt, for documentation C-h i, for
> usenet tin or slrn, and so on.  Surely there's a purpose built tty
> client for IRC.

You can do all of those jobs in a stock emacs:

  - Mail: Gnus, VM, rmail
  - News: Gnus
  - Web: emacs-w3m (ok, that's not stock...)
  - IRC: ERC, rcirc

Bye,
Tassilo