Splitting out PMMail

[Nuclear Bob]

	I say keep the internal editor. I like it and I use it. If you
prefer an external editor, PMMail has already built in _option_ to handle
that.

	I have used the various UNIX mail programs for years (10 years
and counting now). They've usually started an external editor such as vi,
emacs, pico, etc..
It's bearable, but do not prefer it. Pine is okay, but only because Pico
was co-developed alongside it, so the transition to the editor is
relatively transparent.

	I also use Outlook98 at work, which can use Word as the external
editor. After using it for over a year (I really gave it a chance), I've
decided it sucks. I'm back to using the "internal" editor. It chews up way
too much time every time I need to start up and compose a message. And
when Word goes down (which is often) Outlook goes down as well, and vice
versa.

	PMMail/2 is probably, IMHO, one of the lighter, faster little
apps out there. As someone pointed out, the editor in PMMail is little
more than a spruced up MLE, and I suspect that is not where Bob & Ike
spend most of their programming time.  Also, last time I installed Linux,
which was not too long ago, the size of emacs alone outweighed the
complete install of PMMail/2, vi was no lightweight either. (Ditto, I
suspect for EPM). I for one would NOT upgrade to a version that had the
internal editor removed.

	Aside from personal preference, there is also the issue of
communicating properly with the external editor. If there's a bug, where
do you point the finger? Southsoft? Or the editor programmers?


Isaac