[GTALUG] Live and die by the command line WAS Re: git questions

[Loui Chang]

On Fri 06 Mar 2015 14:00 -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> On 6 March 2015 at 13:24, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri 06 Mar 2015 10:52 -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> >> I live and die by the command line, and I'm fairly sure all of this
> >> can be achieved without installing extra tools ...
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > What do you use for mail on the command line?
> 
> Ah, you're making a perfectly reasonable assumption that I can't live
> up to.  I don't browse the web from the CLI and I don't do mail from
> the CLI.  I'm trying to think of other exceptions - I'm sure there are
> one or two - but I guess those are the major ones.

Hah. Just testing you.
 
> I used mutt for a year or so (a decade ago), but configuring it always
> required a huge amount of reading, editing text files, cursing, and
> rinse and repeat.  While vim is arguably the same, I found the rewards
> greater - so I continue to use vim but these days I use Gmail's web
> interface rather than mutt.

I actually did the opposite. I went from web to cli. Other than a few quirks
I'm pretty satisfied. A good addressbook is the only thing I haven't found, but
haven't really sought out either. I use mutt with esmtp, and getmail.