Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266034AbUAKWuZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:50:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266035AbUAKWuZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:50:25 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:42184 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266034AbUAKWuS (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:50:18 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ed L Cashin Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:12:36 -0500 Message-ID: <873camw2wb.fsf@uga.edu> References: <20040104034934.A3669@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040104142111.A11279@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040104230104.A11439@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040105030737.GA29964@nevyn.them.org> <20040105035037.GD4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040105043830.GE4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: Linus Torvalds User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WEzyQpaknyl3EBh6yzMxNzP/jIU= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1721 Lines: 31 Linus Torvalds writes: ... > But since you brought it up: do you actually have anything else that can > open a remote IMAP file with a few thousand messages without taking ages > for it, and that you don't have to mouse around with? I'd like a graphical > interface for configuring stuff etc, but I sure as hell don't want to find > some f*ing icon to save a few messages that I selected in-order to my > "doit" queue or go to the next one, or pipe the thing to a shell-script, > or any number of things that are my actual _job_. Don't you already use emacs? Emacs has gnus! Gnus now has nnimap, an imap backend. > And the "no mousing" means that I don't want to have some popup window > that asks me what file I want to save into or similar crap. I can type > fast enough if I stay on the keyboard and can focus on one part of the > screen, but if I have to switch my focus around, I'm a goner. > > On a related matter, I'm probably a retard, but I've tried alternatives to > "trn" too, and there really aren't any. None of the graphical news readers > can show me one full page of threads, select the 3-4 threads from _that_ > one page that I want (from the keyboard), and then kill _that_ one page. > Not the whole newsgroup: only the part that shows in the window at that > time. Man, you sound so ready for gnus. It does nntp as well. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/