Re: Request for comments: project proposal

"Robert P. Goldman" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:10:54 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clump
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert STRANDH <[email protected]> writes:

    Robert> Hello,
    Robert> Luke Gorrie writes:
    >> 
    >> I'm itching to have a McCLIM-based program that I can use in daily
    >> life, so this is very interesting.

    Robert> Thanks. 

    >> An email client seems a bit thorny though:
    >> 
    >> Gnus is already quite fantastic, and Emacs is a great vehicle for
    >> mail. (I think Gnus is much more popular for mail than VM these
    >> days, but I could be mistaken.)

    Robert> You might be right.  Though I suppose Gnus would have some
    Robert> of the same problems I indicated with vm (loading and
    Robert> saving files, duplicating messages, hard to grep).

Why is this a VM problem?  I use vm all the time, and I use grep all
the time, too...

I'm very fond of VM, but it's really a one-person project and very
hard to contribute to or modify for that reason....