Re: tlug: mew subject width

[Craig Oda <craigoda@example.com>]

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:


>     Craig> support.  Have you tried this out yet?  Is it a relatively
>     Craig> full implementation like the IMAP implementation found in
>     Craig> Pine or is it a limited implementation like that found in
>     Craig> fetchmail?  I find the IMAP file management functions of
>     Craig> Pine to be very helpful.
> 
> No, I have not tried IMAP yet. It been on to-do list for a _long_
> time. :(

It appears that it just gets the e-mail with imget.  I don't think
it has full facilities to do things like polling and file/folder creation
and deletion on the remote server. 

> 
>     Craig> One reason that mew is seductive to me is that I can use
>     Craig> edict.el on Japanese for both reading and writing.  I think
>     Craig> that the 40 character subject line width might be enough. I
>     Craig> think that the first few words of the body might actually
>     Craig> be useful.
> 
> I tried to get edict to work. But never had any luck. I can't remember
> what the problem was. I think there may be something funny about the
> way mew maps keys in emacs...

I've been using edict.el with mule in the office on libc5 for some time.
I have used it with emacs 20.2, xemacs20.3, and xemacs 20.4. I'm currently
using mew with Xemacs 20.4 built with canna support.  I don't 
byte compile edict.el as I've had problems with byte compilation.
It takes a while to load the first time, but after that it works fine.
I have been using edict.el as an indispensible tool.  If you want to
get it to run, I can send you the elisp source and my .emacs file.

Regards,
Craig


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