Dear List: I just lost yet another email - eaten by Arachne. This has my most persistent irritation with Arachne after using her for five years. There I am rattling away with my fat fingers with three or four pages up and somehow I get kicked out of TEXTAREA and the next few keeys become hotkeys and trash my eamail. I cannot work out what I hit - somehting in the cracks. Then I search the .tmp files for TEXTAREA.TMP expecting my writing to be there, but usually it is not. Why not? I check MAIL.TMP ... no luck. It ought to be possible to reclaim the email you were writing by going to back arrow, but that never works.
One way around the problem I have found is to set up Pegasus mail as a plugin but it does seem a bit of an overkill. It does run nice and fast in text though. Ah ..... Insight just did the other thing I hate - loss of linewrap. Again I have complained of this for years and nobody seems to understand my problem. Even my neice says if she keeps typing it sorts itself out. I dont find that happens at all. The problem seems related to doing corrections back in the line, but also to having the screen on low-z and big font. (I dont see as well as I did). bye http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/
