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From: yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
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Subject: Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions, please?
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:34:21 +0042
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Phil Boutros <philb@philb.ca> writes:

>     For text-based, there's also tin, trn, etc.  For those
> recommending gnus, if you're already in the emacs universe, seems like
> a natural choice.  

I'm cursing daily about Emacs' and GNUS' complexity, but I'm sure I'd
curse more without Emacs.  E.g. Org-babel massively helps getting my
code centric notes done.  That's like Jupyter Notebook on steroïds.  And
that way I kind of already have caught my Emacs locked in syndrome, so
GNUS makes the most sense for me.

Th ROI only is significant when you use Emacs a lot, but then the
different "applications" in Emacs support each other and those effects
stack up like the modules involved, e.g. just "cd"-ing in Eshell to a
remote system as easy as changing a local dir.  Or switching the mode of
the buffer to org while writing news and having the table commands or
code blocks at hand.

>     The famous joke:  Emacs is a great operating system.  If only it
> came with a good text editor too ;) 

See sig.

....aaaand another one:

| C-x C-c
| <...pause...>
| Ooops, wrong window!

-- 
I use BSDs, Linux, Haiku and other Emacs bootloaders.