@Zenie @jbaty Giving up #TextExpander was the final, biggest obstacle to transitioning to Linux from MacOS eight or ten years ago. #AutoKey did the job under X, mostly, and #Espanso works sometimes under Wayland but only after a sojourn in config hell. But neither has ever been reliable. It must be a difficult problem space because it just doesn't ever work.

The vast majority of my snippets are for composing email, so I moved them to #yasnippet after I loved to #mu4e. And #Emacs has never let me down.

But that leaves tons of stuff in the browser where one is left just to muddle through.

EDIT 2026-May-21: I just noticed that this function is clearly derived from one in @oantolin's config. Sorry I forgot! Did not mean to take credit.

@csepp Here's a little thing I made to check for message body, subject line, and attachments. Works in message-mode, tested in #mu4e, should work under Gnus and others...?

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/gists/src/branch/master/jeh-message-lint.el

#emacslisp #emacs

@randyridenour @jameshowell @greg @pymander No kidding! It took me forever to get the #O365 auth flow worked out, but #pizauth worked wonders with #mu4e.

Granted, I don't use email with or via #emacs, as I don't yet quite trust I won't wind up deleting everything on the server side. Plus, I have not yet sorted out the whole "everybody in the organization uses outlook calendar".

@panmaster @me I use #imapfilter for presorting, #mbsync to sync with imap servers, custom python scripts for cleanup, and tie it all together with #notmuch. Actual reading of emails in #mu4e that calls notmuch and indexes using #mu.

Does that make me a weirdo? Probably. That and wearing toe socks.

NERD DAD FRIDAY NIGHT WITH @greg

If I'm honest, there's a bit of faffing around to get #mu4e configured (see footnote¹). But golly, it sure is worth it.

Just being able to compose emails natively in #Emacs is very OHHHHHHhhhhh **THAT** FEELS BETTER

and then being able to capture Org tasks that link to messages is very UNLIMITED POWER!!!! (see figure)

and then over the next couple years gradually smoothing and polishing your email workflow with little customizations just exactly for little old you is very [wildebeest-levitating-in-blissful-meditation]

If I were to presume to provide advice it would be: consider it a gradual transition, and resolve to savor the process and enjoy each incremental improvement.

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¹There's a separate binary, which requires a separate quirky compile-from-source installation and configuration. Like most Emacs mail clients, it relies on mbsync to sync local copies with your IMAP server. And then there are countless quirks in its UI, endlessly customizable in the good/bad way to which we are all accustomed.

@pymander