Back to Gnus?

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

I'm not happy about it, but I'm having enough problems with WL that it
prompts serious consideration of a return to Gnus.  Among the issues:

* Very rough handling of mail composition

  * New messages with citations are created with embedded mime buttons

  * Font lock doesn't work reliably, at all.  In fact, it's incredibly
    annoying.  For example, If I want to insert a line a the beginning
    of a message with a citation, I go to the end of the line
    containing "--text follows this line--", hit `RET', and the
    highlighting from that line extends to cover everything I type.
    The same goes when inserting in cited text.

* Generally, too much customization required just to get some
  functionality that's de-rigeur in many mail clients (e.g. signature
  support).  Just look at the size of my customizations!
  https://github.com/dabrahams/dwamacs/blob/master/settings/wl-settings.el

* Connections to my IMAP and SMTP server drop every few minutes and WL
  hangs instead of dealing with it gracefully.  I need to `C-g', wait
  for Emacs to notice, then `M-t M-t' to get back to normal.

Am I just doing something terribly wrong, or...?

Thanks,
Dave


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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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