# HG changeset patch # User meillo@marmaro.de # Date 1271327425 -7200 # Node ID 14f5ff66ad8aae109606d488866c81fd93f40829 # Parent 0bed83a2aeb42081548fc849fa038a0aeaa37eff added notes about mh-e; fixed missing heading diff -r 0bed83a2aeb4 -r 14f5ff66ad8a unix-phil.ms --- a/unix-phil.ms Mon Apr 12 16:41:38 2010 +0200 +++ b/unix-phil.ms Thu Apr 15 12:30:25 2010 +0200 @@ -887,11 +887,12 @@ \s-1MH\s0 is perfectly suited for non-interactive use. It offers all functions directly and without captive user interfaces. If, nonetheless, users want a graphical user interface, -they can have it with \fIxmh\fP or \fIexmh\fP. -These are graphical frontends for the \s-1MH\s0 toolchest. +they can have it with \fIxmh\fP, \fIexmh\fP, +or with the Emacs interface \fImh-e\fP. +These are frontends for the \s-1MH\s0 toolchest. This means, all email-related work is still done by \s-1MH\s0 tools, but the frontend calls the appropriate commands when the user -clicks on buttons. +clicks on buttons or pushes a key. .PP Providing easy-to-use user interfaces in form of frontends is a good approach, because it does not limit the power of the backend itself. @@ -1041,8 +1042,12 @@ Unfortunately, the frontends to \s-1MH\s0, which could provide familiar look'n'feel, are quite outdated and thus not very appealing, compared to the modern interfaces of many monolithic \s-1MUA\s0s. +One notable exception is \fImh-e\fP which provides an Emacs interface +to \s-1MH\s0. +\fIMh-e\fP looks much like \fImutt\fP or \fIpine\fP, +but it has buttons, menus, and graphical display capabilities. -NH 2 "Summary \s-1MH\s0 +.H 2 "Summary .LP \s-1MH\s0 is an \s-1MUA\s0 that follows the Unix Philosophy in its design. It consists of a toolchest of small tools, each of them does one job well.