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Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:55:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
> I recommend using a new version of the Emacs manual
> set. The last version of Emacs 18 was released more
> than 21 years ago. The current manual describes
> RMAIL in detail. A separate manual describes GNUS,
> that manual is part of the set. "Message-mode" is
> the mode for composing email and newsgroup posts that
> comes with GNUS.
So message-mode comes with Gnus? I thought it was older
than Gnus, pre-Internet, pre-everything, perhaps used
with uucp or even for intra-computer "mails". It
doesn't have the "gnus-" prefix that is very
consistently implemented in the Gnus world.
> It's used by GNUS, RMAIL and several other programs.
> It's frequently used, I'm using it now, that's why
> it's included in the manual set. Of-course reading
> an old manual is still useful, many things haven't
> changed.
Yes.
--
underground experts united
Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS, Emanuel Berg, 2014/07/07
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Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS, Emanuel Berg, 2014/07/11