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I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a rem
by ylee 5y ago
I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server.
My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it to read mail for almost as long as I've used Emacs. VM (and ancillary tools, like Personality Crisis and mairix)
* does a great of job displaying HTML messages. For the very few that it doesn't, one keystroke sends the message to my web browser running locally.
* sends URLs I select (all from the keyboard) to the web browser
* opens images and attachments
* auto-adjusts the From: line of outgoing messages depending on the recipient
* archives messages to various folders using various criteria
* search my archived mail going back a quarter century at lightning speed
Of course, I can write Emacs Lisp code of my own to extend any or all of the above.
- allarm 5y agoThis, and also org-mode for organizing everything and org-roam and deft for personal interlinked knowledge base written in plain text. If anything ever happens to emacs or the packages it would be incredibly easy to convert all the notes into whatever format you like in a matter of minutes. It just blows my mind now that I think how much time I spend trying out other productivity tools instead of investing some time in emacs.