Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?

[Peter Davis]

At 05:31 PM 12/20/2001, Robert Praetorius wrote:
> >  From what I've heard, the mutt included with cygwin is not the most
> > up-to-date or complete.
>
>      Since I follow (well, receive and skim) the cygwin mailing list and 
> was the one
> casting indirect aspersions at mutt on cygwin and am both a cygwin and a 
> mutt user. . .
>
>         the current beta mutt is 1.3.24 (see http://www.mutt.org/ ).
>         People report being able to build this on cygwin and it running
>         well, but I recall people saying it can't be built OOTB
>
>         the current cygwin distribution (see
>         http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ ) has both mutt-1.2.5i-5 and
>         mutt-1.2.5i-6 (not sure what the differences are)
>
>         the cygwin mailing list archives (see
>         http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acygwin.com+mutt )
>         contain numerous comments, many commenting on problems with
>         binary attachments and whether they are or aren't solved by
>         this or that.

There's also unixmail, a bundle that includes fetchmail, mutt, 
aspell/pspell, sSMTP, and GnuPG.  This is available on 
SourceForge.  However, I have not been able to get the self-extracting .bat 
file to run on either Win NT or Win 2000.  I'm not sure what version of 
mutt's supposed to be in this.


> p.s.:  does anybody else remember Emacs' ancestor, ^R mode?
>        http://zane.brouhaha.com/~healyzh/_teco_/tecord.1132


Sure.  In fact, I remember writing whole applications as teco macros.  I 
was on one project where we had to redesign some reports generated from a 
database.  Rather than re-code and test the reporting application on short 
notice, we write teco macros to read the reports, move columns around, 
etc.  Saved our necks more than once.

-pd



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