From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T07:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE

On 13/08/2008, Fred Phillips <fophillips@fophillips.org> wrote:
> On Thu Aug 14 03:43:41 2008, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
>  > AFAIK there is no usable email client that would also allow using
>  > an external editor.
>
>
> What about the most usable email client of all? Mutt[1]. I am writing
>  this email in Emacs whose client was launched through mutt.
>
>  http://mutt.org

Yes.

Until it can sort through the mailbox in background while I can see
and use the state before the last email came it's useless. Takes
forever to start up, and then keeps sorting as new mail comes in. You
absolutely need the multithreaded approach which you get with the
client-server model.

You don't have to actually split the application but it has to be
written such that it could be split into the email sorter part and the
viewer part that displays only part of the pre-sorted view. Otherwise
there are serious performance problems leading to serious usability
problems.

Thanks

Michal