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I hope you at least felt some pain in your soul when you wrote a vim plugin for email that was gmail only. Why on earth would you do that?
by freshhawk 14y ago
I hope you at least felt some pain in your soul when you wrote a vim plugin for email that was gmail only.
Why on earth would you do that?
- alpb 14y agoWelcome to Hacker News.
- pestaa 14y agoWell, consider GP's assessment as envy of those who use Gmail and therefore can benefit from this nice piece of software.
- freshhawk 14y agoYes, that's what I was told when I made similar comments about IE only websites years ago as well. How short of a memory does this community have if they don't understand what comes after "embrace" and "extend"?
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoSo the guy who wrote it uses gmail. There's no ulterior motive there. Just a person who uses gmail who wanted to use it in vim
- freshhawk 14y agoOh certainly no ulterior motive, but these things never have ulterior motives, just good people not doing what they should. I was just curious why it wouldn't be just as easy to make it use imap rather than being gmail specific. The idea of making an email client that only worked with email addresses from a single domain would not even have occurred to me.
- wahnfrieden 14y agoGmail has several unique features that generic clients don't live up to.
- d0m 14y agoSometime more specialized/specific is better. For instance, Gmail does support IMAP but also has non-IMAP features. Being too abstract would mean avoiding providing these features. Another point is the easiness of installation/configuration/usability. For instance, with Emacs, you can use GNUs to read gmail. However, it is so generic (you can read usenet news and any kind of e-mail), that it's really a pain to get started. There are terminology confusions (i.e. you need several hacks to have a gmail-like inbox) and overall, it just doesn't feel like g-mail.. Also, by starting very specific for our own problem, it's easier to create a meaningful product that solves a real need. (Like startup!) I think it's easier to start specialized and then grow larger, than start too brood.
- Karunamon 14y agoI also assume this community understands what the word "FUD" means and how it relates to this post.
- herval 14y agoApparently some people in the world use gmail. He wrote something that will be at least interesting to try, so why should he feel any "pain in his soul"? go there and make something too, instead of hoping for other people's souls...
- prezjordan 14y agoIt's just alpine [1] with a gmail interface (read: no annoying setup). [1]: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
- xiaomai 14y agoThis is quite similar to notmuch's vim plugin, if that makes you feel any better.