Re: Request for comments: project proposal

Robert P. Goldman writes:
 > >>>>> "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...

Some of my email files contain uuencoded data.  Some contain binex
data, some contain iso-latin-1 text.  Some contain MIME-encoded text.
Some contain HTML.  Grep and others cannot be adapted to the encoding
of the file.  

 > 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....
-- 
Robert Strandh

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