Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Ed L Cashin
2004-01-11T22:50:25Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

...
> But since you brought it up: do you actually have anything else that can
> open a remote IMAP file with a few thousand messages without taking ages
> for it, and that you don't have to mouse around with? I'd like a graphical
> interface for configuring stuff etc, but I sure as hell don't want to find
> some f*ing icon to save a few messages that I selected in-order to my
> "doit" queue or go to the next one, or pipe the thing to a shell-script,
> or any number of things that are my actual _job_.

Don't you already use emacs? Emacs has gnus! Gnus now has nnimap, an
imap backend.

> And the "no mousing" means that I don't want to have some popup window
> that asks me what file I want to save into or similar crap. I can type
> fast enough if I stay on the keyboard and can focus on one part of the
> screen, but if I have to switch my focus around, I'm a goner.
>
> On a related matter, I'm probably a retard, but I've tried alternatives to
> "trn" too, and there really aren't any. None of the graphical news readers
> can show me one full page of threads, select the 3-4 threads from _that_
> one page that I want (from the keyboard), and then kill _that_ one page.
> Not the whole newsgroup: only the part that shows in the window at that
> time.

Man, you sound so ready for gnus. It does nntp as well.

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