Now I have #mastodon, #email and #matrix in #emacs. Funny how communications on computers are easier to focus on without all the intense animations, colors and ads. I feel much more relaxed and ready to work when it's all texted based.
Around the 1990s the winner was vim.
Around the 2000s the winner was Eclipse.
Around the 2010s the winner was Sublime Text.
Around the 2015s the winner was Atom.
Now the winner is VS Code.
Who cares which editor will be the next winner? I just keep using #Emacs, esp. as none of all the winners can read my email (#mu4e) or be my window manager (#exwm) 🙂
I can't figure out how to automatically filter mail in #mu4e into specific folders... Like take everything from the mailing list emacs-orgmode@gnu.org into its own maildir.
So a couple of weeks ago I played a bit with emacs, offlineimap, mu and mu4e on my work laptop. Yesterday I had to find an email and guess what, the company outlook wasn't being any helpful... I was surprised to fire up emacs, load #mu4e and performing a very basic offline query... Found the email thread immediately and in a couple of minutes I found the email i was looking for.
Can someone explain to me why Microsoft #Outlook still doesn’t warn its users when they send an email which may miss an attachment based on its content when #mu4e in #emacs does?
I was always intimidated by the task of installing and configuring #mu4e, to have my emails inside #Emacs (on macOS). It's not just geeky, but it's also a good idea to have all your email messages (synced) on your local machine; for backup purposes, but also to have access to all your emails while being offline.
Apparently, it's not that difficult to have a working configuration (maybe using Fastmail helps in this endeavor, since Fastmail plays nice with standards).
Over the past ten years or so, I experienced a gradual shift from (a frustrated) "to get the most out of free software, I'm going to HAVE TO LEARN TO CODE!" to (a gratified) "the more I learn to code the more I get out of free software."
In short, it was the cumulative, very high-feedback, very low-barrier-to-entry list of idiosyncratic desires for tweaking my #Org mode workflows, then customizing my #mu4e workflows ... before I knew it I had written a couple of major and minor modes to mitigate my own #ADD.
@dpflug@ajroach42@beto As the original author of #OfflineIMAP, it's always fun to see it mentioned. I'm no longer an active developer on the project, but I still use it for all my mail.
Speaking of which, my other suggestions are #Emacs and #mu4e. #screen also; it's one of the few things that works well with the XON/XOFF that some real vt220 and such require. I do own a #Wyse WY55, #DEC vt220, vt420, and vt510 and periodically work from them. Amazing focus mode.
The #DEC#vt510 was their first terminal to accept a PC keyboard with a PS/2 port. Here I have an IBM clicky keyboard hooked up, because I never liked the DEC layout. Also on the vt510, I can remap keys, so ctrl is where it is supposed to be - left of A.
A #DEC vt510 terminal from the 1990s connected to a Raspberry Pi running Linux. The screen is showing a summary of emails in mu4e, a mail reader for Emacs.
A #DEC vt510 terminal from the 1990s connected to a Raspberry Pi running Linux. The screen is showing this thread in the toot CLI client.
A #DEC vt510 terminal from the 1990s connected to a Raspberry Pi running Linux. Connected to it is an IBM keyboard.
I just had a silly idea in System Crafters chat: Somebody (maybe you?) ought to create a package which hooks chatgpt-shell to talk to mu4e and auto-generate and send emails as replies to a list of email addresses you don't feel like dealing with. 😀
I’m slowly spending more and more time inside #Emacs thanks to #mu4e, #elfeed, #mastodonel, #pdftools, #dired and quite a few other packages. I still haven’t hopped on EXWM full time, I really only use it on my Chromebook, and I can’t use it at work, but being able to do pretty much everything just with the keyboard really is a blessing!
A while ago I had to use a Windows machine at work, and of course the first thing I did was install #Emacs on it. Most things worked surprisingly well, but I couldn't get #Mu4e to work. I also tried #NotMuch and #Mew, but I also failed to either install them or compile them.
At the end I tried #Gnus, and everything worked out of the box. I didn't even need to install any GNU utility.
Gnus is not the prettiest, and its terminology and configuration is confusing. But it is incredibly versatile.
It has worked very nicely as an Email email client, specially to manage mailing lists. But now I also use it for things like Reddit and Hackernews.
What are your experiences with Emacs mail clients under Windows? Is anyone using something other than Gnus?