When I use my computer, the most fundamental thing I do is edit text. This means that either my text editor should be extended to do everything, or my text editor should be easily called from other programs. Emacs takes the first approach, and vim takes the second. Having arbitrarily chosen emacs a few years ago, I’ve never looked back.
Recently, I set emacs up to read email, using the gnus mail user agent. The documentation is pretty good, but because there are so many customisation options, it feels like a build-your-own-mail-reader kit. I wanted to be able to read mail offline as the connection here is terrible. I also wanted as few moving parts as possible (some other people use dovecot to run a local IMAP server, sync mail with offlineimap and never touch the gnus agent). Here’s my setup:
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Merry Christmas. Yes, that’s a tree lashed to the top of the mast. We put lights on it, too, but taking a picture at night didn’t turn out so well.