Re: tm & gnus

Your message is really helpful wrt to basic keybindings and how to start. But I think that such a startup should be (easily) available to everybody through conventional emacs techniques. One should not have to post questions or read faq. All that end user `sees' is gnus. So gnus documentation should be a point to start and figure out everything one needs. When it describes `gnus-group-mail' and friends, it should refer to `message' manual. Currently `gnus.info' does not mention `gnus-msg-mail' at all, and functions' documentation does not state explicitly where to read about mail composition. I am sure that gnus doesn't, but user does. With menubar it is easier to understand what MML does. MML minor mode description (which is the only thing universally available on any device) is quite terse and does not state explicitly that it is stuff for composing MIME messages described in this-and-this `.info'. Hope that it describes what to do without MULE or when same text may be sent in different charsets, and required charset may change. I think that the statement still holds. There are apparently not enough cross-references, and learning it is not as easy as it could be. Even now I observe some surprises in message mode. It appears to use `sendmail' stuff, and does that in a strange way. One has to change default `sendmail-program' value, not buffer-local one, to have it affect sending in `message' mode. So one cannot (easily) reuse his `sendmail-program' stuff. And there is no way back, that is, you cannot stick to `tm' either, since it is also considerably hosed. So mail editing in xemacs becomes quite uncomfortable.