The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Steve Lamb]

Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 6:18:35 PM, Steve wrote:
>>1: Internal editor to The Bat!  (ALT-L)
>>2: joe (^K^J)
>>3: vim (Q})
>>
>>    Each of those editors will retain proper quoting during reflowing.
>>
>>    There is a port of joe to OS/2.
>>

> If I had been actively campaigning against adding features to the internal
> editor of PMMail (feature bloat, does not belong in an email application,
> and other slams as I recall), I would not even mention #1 above. Can your
> spelling checker find hypocrisy?

    Probably.  It can also find honesty and integrity as well.  BTW, it does
it on the fly.  What's your point?  Here's mine.

    Does TB! do it with its internal editor?  Yes.  Why, then, should I not
mention that fact.  To do so would be an omission of the truth.  Sure, it
would make my "position look better" but I'm not here to play politics.  I
think the fact that I don't go trotting out TB! every time it fulfills
someone's pet feature request on here is political enough, thank you.

    Now, why not ask the other questions you left unasked.

1: Have you been actively asking for external editor support in TB!?

    Yes, Mr. Marvin, I have been.  That is because I prefer vim even to TB!'s
internal editor.  I'm also trying to nudge vim people to add aspell support to
vim.

2: Does the internal editor in TB! reflow to your liking?

    No, it does not.  It reduces the spaces after a period to 1 from 2 and
removes indentation.  Therefore I'm not able to reflow as I would like, only
on quoted material.

3: Why are you using TB!, anyway?

    Because it has basic IMAP support which *IS* a feature I have been
heavily asking for for 2-3 *years* now and I'm tired of waiting for.  While
the implementation is piss poor, at least it is there and can be improved
upon.  I switched because, at the time, PMMail development appeared dead and I
wanted to be with something that has active development so I can try to get
the features that I *need* into the product.  Features that aren't repetitive
of external functionality and have become market standard for a while now.

4: Are there features that you don't want to see in TB!?

    Ironically, the very same "features" (waste!) I don't want to see in
PMMail or any other email client for that matter.  Just seems dumb for me to
actively try to get features removed unless there is a large impact.


   Does this satisfy you?

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