Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:59:50PM -0500, A . Curtis Martin wrote: The origin of this behaviour that is present in most Windows based editors that may have reason to use is pretty much besides the point. The reality is that if you are developing an application for Windows users then you are

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:58:23AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: Ah, seems I touched a nerve ;-) Nerve, no. Stabbed the spinal cord? Yes. Currently, for mail, I use the inbuilt Eudora one. But no, I wouldn't mind using Notepad as an editor, but I sure as hell don't want to need to invoke

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:21:01AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: Is it now. Yes, it has been explained to you several times. I have been on the net for six years and nobody ever told me that they were aggreviated by the fact that I use a proportional font to compose in and read my and

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:29:33AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: At 20:15 16-09-2000 -0500, A. Curtis Martin kindly wrote: SL Exactly, there isn't a standard, at least not for the more advanced SL features of an editor. She hasn't really touched on any advanced features as such. I

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:41:42AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: 'Cept that I don;'t always read on the spot, and then new massages get added to old (unread) messages. That's where new and old start getting diffuse. I don;t want that. I want my mailer to say that I've recieved do many here and

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:25:46AM +0100, Tony Boom wrote: Stick with it and like Mark, myself and many others, I'm sure you'll come to love it. Wow, that's what, the 5th one now? Sheesh. Hello, I stick with it and after 18 months I still hate it. Some people just don't like the

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:22:29PM +0100, Tony Boom wrote: SL Hello, I stick with it and after 18 months I still hate it. So can we assume you won't be buying the company? You never know. If that is the only way to get that lame-duck feature removed I might just do that. --

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:52:07AM -0500, A . Curtis Martin wrote: S Most likely because you weren't trying to do anything more advanced S set up a lunch date. FvV You are very wrong here (and very arrogant too! (why?)) moderator hat on I have to agree with you here Fred. One of the

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 12:29:40AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: 1. If you move your cursor down in the window in which you are editing your mail (e.g. move it down to the next empty line), it goes down but stays in the same column (read: horizontal axis) and doesn't go to the beginning of the

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:36:13AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: 1. Why does my reply to Januk gets garbled in the Subject line and suddenly gets "Re[2]: etc" instead of your standard "Re: etc"? TB! loves to count replies for some reason. You can turn that off in the templates. The exact

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:56:33AM +0200, Karin Spaink wrote: Ah, but I don't like pitcvhed fomts to begin with. And as I told Jurek: it feels as if somebdy is hammering it in. You _will_ have fixed fomts and even if you find your way around them. we will still make your message editor act

Re: New user, lotsa questions

2000-09-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:15:58PM -0500, A . Curtis Martin wrote: This is another thing that I have been indicating to you. In windows, the basic behaviour of most editors is really standard. This is why TB!'s editor is a real 'culture shocker' for those who are used to using different

Re: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, September 12, 2000, 1:34:40 PM, A wrote: OTOH, most RE experts claim that you'll find uses for RE's that you never imagined would be relevant to your situation and work, once you learn how to use them. While others will point out

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 2:16:56 AM, Markus wrote: You may hit me, but in certain way even MS Word knows REs in Search and Replace. Somehow I doubt that if I told Word to do something like the following in vim it would know what to do or

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 12:35:06 PM, Peter wrote: one, i'm just used to it). And yes, i'm eagerly awaiting the possibility to use Emacs as an external editor from within TB! ... Never understood the drive to use Emacs as an external

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 4:02:36 AM, Tony wrote: SL They both have their strengths and weaknesses. Any reason why your not using either of them? What makes you think I'm not using one of them? - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 4:43:49 AM, Tony wrote: http://www.incredimail.com/english/index.html Thanks, I'm going to have to go home sick now. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink,

Re: Replying to your message dated Thursday, September 14, 2000, at 9:54 AM

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 7:50:31 AM, Dierk wrote: I gather that in not too long a time someone wants to have Flash e-mail. Or whatever multimedia "standard" will come ;-). On the PMMail list we're having almost an identical discussion. I

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, September 12, 2000, 1:48:02 PM, Nick wrote: Do you know any other applications, as an example, that you can use regular expressions with? I've never fell across them before TB! and was wondering if it's just a case of tunnel vision on my

Re: a regexp question

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 11:21:25 AM, Jason wrote: My question is, can TB do this work for me with a regexp? The number AFAIK, no. Regexp is pattern matching and string replacement but does not have such capabilities. - -- Steve

Re: and a pgp question

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 11:24:31 AM, Jason wrote: Why does signing a message in TB with PGP mess up lines with hyphens? Just look at what it does to my signature. It's not _supposed_ to look like that. Is this a PGP thing in general or

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 11:33:27 AM, Peter wrote: SL What makes you think I'm not using one of them? The mail that Tony replied to was written (according to the X-Mailer header) with "Mutt/1.2.5i" Right. Is it now mandated that one

Re: OT: Why not Emacs for mail and news (was Re: OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 11:30:25 AM, Peter wrote: and found TB! for mail. I've not bothered again to try newer versions of gnus, i like the GUI of TB! (or many parts of it, there is always room for improvements) Agreed. ;) - --

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:54:55PM +0100, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: attachment. Thus you can attach a prepared HTML file to an email an and in that way send an "HTML mail". I don't want to get into an argument about OE and Poco and all of the others that "let you do it properly".

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:22:21AM +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: My main argument is always the waste of bandwidth (and that I find emails with different fonts and colours offensive or just plain ugly, but that's certainly a matter of taste). What other reasons are there? There is no

Re: Replying to your message dated Thursday, September 14, 2000, at 9:54 AM

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:55:09PM -0700, David Tod Sigafoos wrote: And why shouldnt email be presentable? Email /is/ presentable. It doesn't need HTML for that. What is it about HTML that scares people so much. The fact there is no standard for displaying it, what standard

Re: Replying to your message dated Thursday, September 14, 2000, at 9:54 AM

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 03:02:57PM -0700, David Tod Sigafoos wrote: Who says? Who is the leading authority on what email needs or doesn't need? Indeed. So why are you saying that it needs HTML? True .. there is no 'definitive' standard. But 99% of HTML (not dhtml, xhtml etc) is

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 03:26:33PM -0700, ztrader wrote: On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 10:10:51 AM, you wrote: SL has better sorting What is better? That is not enough context to go by. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ:

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:59:22PM -0500, A . Curtis Martin wrote: cough PMMail as a straightforward multi-account e-mail system is comparable. Once you start moving to advanced features, PMMail in general becomes a shadow of TB!. I used PMMail for a longer time than I've been using TB!. :-)

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:03:20PM -0700, ztrader wrote: What sorting functions or operations does it do better? The layout and accessability is generally better in PMMail. With TB! the configuration of filters is quite cryptic. With PMMial it is straightforward in basic mode and quite

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:36:12PM -0700, ztrader wrote: I'd have to agree there, although good help files and examples could have answered many of the questions I had. Even with help I'm afraid the filtering is just poorly laid out. SL limited scripting capabilities in advanced SL

Re: HTML mail

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:36:23PM -0500, A . Curtis Martin wrote: You're asking me to put aside, perhaps, the single most significant reason why I use TB! over PMMail. I cannot just put it aside like that and continue the argument. :-) That's the point. You use templates extensively, I

Re: PGP signing

2000-09-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, September 07, 2000, 8:16:18 AM, Marek wrote: Hello all, Thursday, September 07, 2000, Cameleon wrote: We can setup a macro for "sign when completed". But can we say in the template with WHICH key we want sign, assuming there

Re: Sewcurity

2000-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 9:18:18 AM, Christian wrote: Btw, if you like I can send you some of my love letters. If you've seen one you have seen them all anyway.. ;) Please, darling, next time more duct tape on the hamster and 10W-40 would be

Am I missing something?

2000-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How does one get TB! to set itself as default mail client without going through the install? - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of

Re: why do u discriminate me just cuz Im new to this list?

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 14, 2000, 11:08:06 AM, Dierk wrote: BTW, my browser is Opera and what I don't like about the latest version is it's integrating of features which are not - repeat *not* - really integral to a browser, i.e. news and mail facilities.

Fwd: Re: TheBat and Spam

2000-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
am getting through to my inbox. That was over several years of using that system on PMMail on an account that was spammed heavily and on which I got in excess of 500 messages per day. Frankly, this should be a FAQ. ===Original message text=== From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL

Re: Moderator's Announcement

2000-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday, August 12, 2000, 2:21:28 AM, Marck wrote: Please extend a warm welcome to your new moderator - I know I do :-). 'Grats. I can think of none better. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 11:24:23 PM, Graham wrote: Any idea where I can get vim? I like Editpad for a number of reasons, but I want an editor I can use with other applications and The Bat! I'd like to look at vim www.vim.org - --

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 11:43:19 PM, Oleg wrote: It doesn't remain in memory -- it is dumped to swapfile and next time I will need it it will be ready a bit faster than if started again. It will be an economy of my time if I use it frequently.

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 11:43:19 PM, Oleg wrote: It doesn't remain in memory -- it is dumped to swapfile and next time I will need it it will be ready a bit faster than if started again. It will be an economy of my time if I use it frequently.

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 11, 2000, 3:40:39 AM, Soth wrote: Then why were you so eager to term it "another notepad wannabe"? Because most, if not all, ASCII editors on Windows aren't much above that level. I've taken a look at UltraEdit and wasn't

Re: Why not a Newsgroup or and WWW-forum?

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 4:50:14 PM, starc wrote: My question is, why donĀ“t we create a newsgroup Because newsgroups are very open and hard to control. They are also very easy to harvest email addresses from. forum in a www-page for

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 11, 2000, 5:03:19 AM, Soth wrote: I don't believe that's a justifiable claim. Oh, it is more than justifiable. I downloaded it and boy did the problems come flooding in. First off, default colors were completely unacceptable.

Re: why do u discriminate me just cuz Im new to this list?

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 6:37:07 PM, starc wrote: And...by the way...new people are sometimes better enabled to see things that are wrong...cuz the older users are already familiar with it, they got used to the system and to those things

Re: why do u discriminate me just cuz Im new to this list?

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ooook, maybe I wrote the last message wrong. Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 7:56:40 PM, starc wrote: Hmm...sorry..but u r the one writing BULLPOO. As I already pointed out in another email, I never thought that my suggestion was better.

Re: why do u discriminate me just cuz Im new to this list?

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 11, 2000, 12:35:45 PM, Mark wrote: TIT(This is true). Perhaps the definitive answer to the original question would be reached if such a discussion group was created. No. Then, those that preferred the newsgroup approach could

Re: Effective Immediately

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 11, 2000, 7:07:35 AM, Tom wrote: Steve's posts amuse me these days. He tries so hard to be offensive, I find it hard not to laugh. Actually, I don't try to be offensive at all. I am what I am and have long since grown tired of

Re: SOT: tbudl's mailserver (was: Re: Why not a Newsgroup or and WWW-forum?)

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 11, 2000, 3:28:48 PM, Peter wrote: Syafrils server and is using MDaemon as the list server software. I don't know how MDaemon compares to Listar (if there is anybody willing to point out the differences, move to tbot, I would be

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:37:54PM -0500, Curtis wrote: SL Why would anyone use an MDI editor in the first place? It offers SL only limitations over SDI editors. Not editors that offer both MDI and SDI options. Anyway, that's a strawman argument there. You're deviating again into an

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:43:00 AM, Oleg wrote: SL use are a little more advaced than the garden variety notepad programmed by a SL shareware wannabe visual basic programmer? Because I don't exit my UltraEdit. I just close project with all files

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 7:20:46 AM, Jamie wrote: So what exactly is better than UltraEdit? In my opinion and it blows Word and Emacs out of the water. I've never used it. Why should I when I've had joe and vim? - -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 10:51:18 AM, Kenneth wrote: Ideally there should be a standard editor "server protocol" that all editors should support so that editor-using clients (like mail composition programs) need not include an editor but can tie

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 10:58:03 AM, Nick wrote: One of the nicest little MDI Editors I use is called EditPad. It's Freeware, and you can take a look at it here: http://www.jgsoft.com/editpadlite.html Yikes. How can anyone get any work

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 12:32:09 PM, Kenneth wrote: First, does it need to be cross-platform? Would one run an email client and editor on different machines? TB! will soon be on Linux. The issue isn't what the user will do, but what the

Re: Question regarding case (in)senisitivity in Reg Exp filters

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 12:32:00 PM, Peter wrote: The PCRE part of the help file is IMHO one of most complete help topics, once you've found it. My tip for locating it: open Help, go to the find tab and enter "regular". Choose the entry "What

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 12:01:08 PM, Nick wrote: The choice of Editors is all "need" dependant, and EditPad Lite meets my meager needs perfectly when I want to quickly open or create a small text file. :o) I fail to see why one needs to

Re: From in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 1:58:11 PM, Marck wrote: No. Only those of us who have a sendmail server between the list server (which is MDaemon running on a WinNT/2K PC) and the end user POP server. It isn't sendmail, it is the

Re: Communication between mail clients and external editors

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:22:25 PM, Kenneth wrote: I was thinking that more powerful editors like those you and I use could implement this as either a core function or in an add-on DLL (.so for Linux). Stupider editors could rely on a small

Re: From in a message

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:49:48 PM, Kenneth wrote: Not sure about the latter. How would you tell the difference between a line that was escaped vs. one that was originally in that form before sending? The MUA could make an educated guess based

Re: Effective Immediately

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, Joe Finocchiaro wrote: Apparently he can't write a message without being sarcastic. Odd, I've written about a dozen today without sarcasm. Maybe you can't read my messages without sarcasm? to one of my posts (no, I don't need nor want his help),

Re: Using The Bat! with GPG

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 7:34:24 PM, Cricket wrote: There is no need to install PGP. Doesnt TB! have a built in PGP module? ... under Tools-Privacy-PGP_Version First of GPG isn't PGP. Secondly the build in version can only deal with RSA

Re: Effective Immediately

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 10, 2000, 5:08:04 PM, Joe wrote: Thanks, everyone out there who gave me a lot of help, and there were quite a few of you! You're most welcome. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 9:27:36 PM, Marck wrote: JA What would be your closest analogy for pasting? Is hitting the paste JA button the same as typing whatever you copied? Or is it like going to JA a magazine and physically ripping out the page

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 10:48:21 PM, Curtis wrote: machine as we speak for cripes sake. I know exactly what you're both referring to. Just what is your problem Steve??!! My problem is most people get it wrong. There is no problems with the

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 10:53:37 PM, Curtis wrote: We aren't being critical of PMMails method. We are defending TB!'s method. There's a difference there you know. Right. PMMail correct. TB! incorrect. Reasons given months ago. - --

Re: Too many windows

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 10:55:04 PM, Marc wrote: Just a quick questions.. what does MDI stand for? (I know what it is, being a longtime Eudora User.. but I was curious) Multi-document interface. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm

Re: text editor to remove duplicate lines?

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 12:35:08 AM, Jamie wrote: Grep.com was supplied free with all versions of Borland C and C++ as well as Pascal from version 3 onwards . I'm not sure it has the same options, however. - -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: text editor to remove duplicate lines?

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 5:45:48 AM, Oliver wrote: grep aol file die.scum Ah, very correct. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard

Re: Too many windows

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 6:05:02 AM, Nick wrote: In Reference to "Too many windows" From Steve Lamb: S Mainly because there is a utility out there that groups like S windows together under a single start bar button What, you gonna m

Re: Question regarding case (in)senisitivity in Reg Exp filters

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 6:25:49 AM, Mike wrote: (?i)make money fast will screen for that string of text on a case-insensitive basis. Is that correct? This is why I wish RIT would release docs on how TB! uses PCRE. For me

Re: Too many windows

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:57:49AM -0700, Ming-Li wrote: preserving Alt-Tab for application switching. With SDI, it might take forever to switch to another application with Alt-Tab, forcing you to use mouse. (Not that I hate mouse, mind you.) You know, the only time I've ever used alt-tab

Re: Quotes macro (Was: Re: thebat! 1.46 beta)

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 10:06:42 AM, Curtis wrote: LOT. :-) One thing though, it requires practice like a spoken language. Yes, it does. Just like spoken language it can also get very complex, esp. when one considers there are different

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 9:52:21 AM, Curtis wrote: to another folder using ShiftCtrlG or Navigation - Go to Folder. OTOH, I'd want PMMail's browse windows to disappear when I'm finished browsing a list because there's nothing else to do with

Re: Quotes macro (Was: Re: thebat! 1.46 beta)

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 10:27:29 AM, Curtis wrote: but still have enough retained to do basic stuff. That's the plan. What do you think? g Good plan overall. I don't use much of the power of regex but what I do use is quite handy.

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 11:01:28 AM, Curtis wrote: Being able to change to a different folder using shiftctrlg is a kludgy function? I say no to that. TB! is just different in approach. And a wrong one. As I said months ago, it does

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 11:08:48 AM, Curtis wrote: another for all other folders. The only reason I'd check the main window at times for would be to see the amount of unread messages left in the folder I was browsing. Ungh. If I wanted

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 11:32:11 AM, Curtis wrote: If the software doesn't do things the way you prefer it to, it's buggy on that account? Isn't that stretching what the term 'bug' means? :-) Do you consider suboptimal implementation of a

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 12:03:43 PM, Marck wrote: Definition time: a bug is a _fault_ in the implementation of a piece of software (the coding) which renders it inoperable or breaks design constraints within which the software should be

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 12:23:21 PM, Curtis wrote: the weasel with me. g Why deviate the discussion and bring the above bug into the picture. Of course that's a bug! I agree entirely and I have indicated this both on list a lng time ago

Re: Too many windows

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 12:22:36 PM, Kenneth wrote: One deficiency in PMMail is that if I select another folder from the main window and then select next message from the reading window, the reading window closes, instead of reading the next

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 1:23:03 PM, Marck wrote: That is only because you happen to have the main Window open. Curtis and I (and others who haven't yet mentioned that they work this way) don't. TB stays in the tool tray most of the time.

Re: TB vs. PMMail

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 2:38:05 PM, Curtis wrote: KP Found this. Why would one select text and *not* want this to happen by KP default? Why the special keystroke? Ask Steve Lamb about this. He was the main voice of reason behind your question

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 2:22:00 PM, Joe wrote: Correction, Kenneth. No one but you, apparently. Others were mentioned. But is two days really enough time to fairly evaluate a program? Especially a program as quirky as TB is? Thing

Re: Selective quoting

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 3:04:49 PM, Kenneth wrote: As I've said elsewhere, this should be a configurable default to satisfy our different work styles. It is configurable. You know you're going to quote selected, hit F4. Personally my

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 2:55:04 PM, Curtis wrote: I fill in the addressing etc and then hit the use external editor button. Or just hit return in the subject field. The part I dislike is having to close the editor each time, for each

Re: Selective quoting

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 2:53:08 PM, Kenneth wrote: Okay, Steve, what was your argument against selective quoting (ie. the F4 function)? Sent to you before you even asked this question. ;) argument on this list seems to be over what

Re: Too many windows

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 2:49:01 PM, Kenneth wrote: What are you doing different? I'm reading your message in my "Software\TheBat" folder, go back to the PMMail main window and select a message in the "Software\PMMail" folder, and then back on

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 3:45:22 PM, Curtis wrote: Urhm, yes. What use exactly have I found for this bug? Stop being dishonest Steve. The bug, Allie, is not closing upon hitting the end of a list. You know that as well as I do. Stop lying

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 4:11:30 PM, Curtis wrote: Even if you're using an MDI editor where you can close a particular document and save it? Why would anyone use an MDI editor in the first place? It offers only limitations over SDI

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 3:59:19 PM, Marck wrote: No need. You did not originate this thread nor was any of it in response to your initial attempt to divert it. Please, do I have to send you a screen shot of the threaded view in my

Re: TB vs. PMMail

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 4:51:12 PM, Kenneth wrote: I think a large part of my problem is the sparse and inconsistent help (admittedly a problem with many programs). Is this another case of an undocumented feature? Well, given that regex

Re: Next/Prev action at end of list

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:56:47AM +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: What is wrong with you today Steve? Marck is referring to the closing feature that you would like, not about the del-up bug. I'm just wondering why everyone things they are different when they are one and the same. --

Re: Signing of Messages (Was: Re: List server rules)

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:17:26AM +0100, Deryk Lister wrote: Not really. S/MIME insists on including the entire certificate, whilst the PGP version (key) has the nice friendly download-it-manually method :) You're joking, right? That has GOT to be a joke. Who the hell would make a

Re: Signing of Messages (Was: Re: List server rules)

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:45:12AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTH, PGP 6.5.1.i is a 8.1mb download (i just did) and needs 15mb of hard disk space ... a S/MIME certificate is a couple of 100 bytes and just imports into the address book. just sayin' ... it all depends on wether you got

Re: OT? S/MIME PGP (inspired by: Re[2]: List server rules)

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 7:43:48 AM, David wrote: Anyone could forge a PGP key, if you manage to give fake details to Thawte it says they can sue you for about 10,000 dollars or something crazy. No, noone can force a PGP key. If you think

Re: Signing of Messages (Was: Re: List server rules)

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 7:43:44 AM, David wrote: would not only need to download that persons key to check their signature, but you would also need to phone them or something, to check if the key really belongs to them. How many people here

Re: Signing of Messages (Was: Re: List server rules)

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 8:20:58 AM, Deryk wrote: I don't think Microsoft invented S/MIME (which would explain everything as well) but they were certainly behind it a lot. Certainly reason right there to ignore it. WTF was RIT thinking when

Re: text editor to remove duplicate lines?

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 02, 2000, 12:32:56 PM, Jamie wrote: SL The GNU text utils would work wonders here. SL type file | sort | uniq file.new SL Sort will put them all in order and then uniq will return only a single SL occurance of any

Re: Two Format Questions

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 2:47:52 PM, Joe wrote: Then, if you asked us again whether we would ever want TB to do this for us automatically, and without the need for an external editor, the reply would be "You betcha! Not on your life.

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