From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:43:09 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <85r4qnweue.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87iparu3sz.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <85zk42r68r.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85bogcjq10.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85y5jeetnj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <851ugoch4a.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87a9psy2kk.fsf@atmarama.net> <87r4j4djwx.fsf@atmarama.net> <857gktkiu9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <515adb27$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <85eheqn2bv.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <854nfll6ij.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="759faf2487b2ffad9ca6f5463a606de4"; logging-data="18257"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fZCzyNR+Oi29RyvGq6dh59vYfGZfb+To=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xp76qVaGPdixkLFwiXGf1spzRb0= sha1:yIv1hbB5pvaSg6fF3VyjSH77CAM= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:14892 Date: 2013-04-06T08:43:09+01:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > Simon Wright writes: >>None of the (free) mailing list archives I've seen comes close to >> News in general usability. > > Why? What specifically is missing from a Mailman archive? > > The only news archive I know about is Google. That keeps changing its > interface, but it seems comparable to the web interface to a Mailman > archive to me. I only know the web interface to Mailman archives; eg emacs-ada-mode and gcc. It'd be _so_ much better with a framed strucure; message threads on the left, individual messages on the right (or top and bottom, like the default Gnus).