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Re: emacs vs vs.net
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Vagn Johansen |
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Re: emacs vs vs.net |
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Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:35:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) |
Jason Earl <jearl@wegointer.net> writes:
> Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> That should have been "Gnus does NOT support searching in multiple
>> groups."
>
> For searching I use find and grep :).
Well, then all mail readers that store mail messages as text files
".. has all sorts of tools for plowing through huge piles of email" (as
you write).
> I wade through hundreds of emails a day (not counting spam). For me
> the biggest advantages of Gnus over other email clients I have used is
> the ability to quickly skim through groups without having to touch the
> mouse. 'k' will kill useless threads, space will page through a
> message 'A n' adds a task to my planner.el files (with a link to the
> message in question).
I have been looking for a way of creating a "task" (with reminder) based
on a gnus message, but have not found anything useful yet. I tried
nndiary, but could not get it working.
I tried planner.el but it did not seem to be able to give a good overview
of added tasks ("A n"). I will look at it a bit further.
> Lately I have been thinking about adding in
> Remembrance agent http://www.remem.org/ to the mix.
I used the Remembrance Agent for a short period a few years back. I did
not have it running all the time, I just activated it to perform a search
in some of my text files. It was written in C, so it was not easy to add
support for new file types. That is probably why I gave up using it.
> I suppose if I used my inbox as a knowledge base I might be more
> interested in searching. Even so, Gnus has some pretty compelling
> tools.
I don't consider find and grep to be Gnus tools, if that is what you mean.
All my emails are a knowledge base along with a lot of small text files I
write. I am planning to convert my text files into emacs-wiki files for
easier navigation.
Searching is important to me, that is why I am working on my own search
software to search Gnus mails and a lot of other file types: txt, html,
mp3, doc, etc.
I tried nnir.el/swish but that is very primitive. Even Outlook Express is
a lot better. (In fairness: swish *does* create an index, so it very fast).