Emacs & PINE -- "perfect together." [Don't hurt me!]

[Michael ODonnell]

> A sad, sad truth that I've come to accept is that I have PINE's
> keystrokes emblazoned in my memory.  I use it at least once a
> year, whether I need to or not, and I never even have to pause.
> They keystrokes are just THERE.  I tried MUTT.  No dice.  Never was
> a big ELM fan.  And GUIs are certainly nice, but sometimes text
> based is the way to fly.
>
> Ironically, however, I really hate PICO.


Another sad, sad truth is that you failed to mention MH
even though it predates all those upstarts.  I'm using
it right now and have been for about 15 years (I mean,
for all my email in all that time, not just this one
tedious message ;-> ).  I prefer to use it from the
command line (each verb is actually a distinct program,
each message a distinct file) but it also has a decent
GUI named EXMH coded in Tcl/Tk, and support for all the
pointless MIME-wrapped, armored, translated, encrypted,
GIF-augmented, HTML-encoded glop with attachments and
rotating knives that clutter email messages nowadays,
if you happen to like that sort of stuff...