On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:56:47PM +0000, James Freer wrote: > Thank you for your help and comments. Just to recap i had wanted to > use a text editor to speed up answering emails and considered Mutt and > Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for sometime and liked the app. A text > email client seemed the answer but i wasn't that impressed by Mutt. > > However, i'm not as knowledgeable as some and setting up Mutt was ok > but still involved quite a bit of work. I got it all working and did > appreciate your help. > > Yesterday i came across a Thunderbird addon Muttador (still beta stage > - vi editor)
I tried to find muttador but came up with very little. Do you have a link to it? Brian. > and today came across a non-mozilla TB addon called Exteditor... > http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 some v.clever person has > developed an external editor addon instead of the TB editor. It allows > emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose emails. Should be of > interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to the mouse while editing > emails. > james > > 2009/2/21 Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com>: > > On 2009-02-21, Chris Bannister <mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:55:00AM -0500, Noah Sheppard wrote: > >> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:44:45AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > >> > > [..] > >> > > Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :) > >> > > >> > We are computer geeks; pedantry is never off-track. > >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?^^^^^^^^^ > >> No need for the hyphen; you are not splitting a word. > > > > Hyphens are not used only for splitting words; they are also used > > for joining words to form compounds, as when forming a single > > adjective as in "ten-foot pole" or "off-track pedantry". ?In the > > example above, however, since the modifier "off track" follows > > "pedantry", the correct usage is without the hyphen: ?pedantry is > > never off track. > > > > Regards, > > Gary > > > > > > -- "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance". The best slogan used by an education trade union. Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au
