Life with icons
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It depends how to compile Text Emacs, though, its menu is so awkward
that users may be discouraged to use it. But wait! XEmacs's menu is
cool enough. Moreover, it has toolbars which hold icons bounded to
each function.

If you use Mew on XEmacs, you can read and/or write messages with
icon-based interface. The icon-based interface was designed totally
equivalent to the original key-based interface.

So, how to use the icon-based interface? I believe that it is
intuitive enough that no future explanation is necessary. Nonetheless,
some basic rules are shown below.

To execute a function bounded to each BASIC icon in Summary, Virtual,
and Draft mode toolbar, click the left button of your mouse.

For multipart messages, multipart icons appears in toolbars. Clicking
the left button on a multipart icon visualizes the part. When you
press the multipart icon, a popup menu appears. Thanks to this menu,
many operations can be applied to the part.

By default, multipart icons are displayed at the right size of the
basic icons in toolbars. If you like the left size, configure as
follows:

     (setq mew-multipart-icon-position 'left)

If you hesitate to install XEmacs, please gain access to the following
URL to see snapshots of the icon-based interface.

     http://www.Mew.org/