> Why, is it difficult to do in Mutt? I feel dumber just for reading this thread, so in that spirit I might as well reply.
Why the unprovoked trolling, Chris? Did some mutt user steal your appropriately-sexed friend? Of course it's not difficult if you're using mutt; Matt just didn't feel like it. Why should mutt include an editor? Every computer mutt runs on comes with one, and mutt uses it automatically. Don't like it? Add another one. A newbie wouldn't even particularly know that the editor they use with mutt doesn't come with mutt, and why is the fork/exec model any worse than the TextEditor.framework model for this? The only reason mutt's approach wouldn't work flawlessly is if the editor's startup cost is high, but none of the editors you mentioned have high startup cost. And of course mutt can reflow paragraphs before the editor ever receives it, if you want it to. (Mine does.) Also, what's up with "I like a bit of consistency.... I don't care what editor I use?" If you're going to bust out the side door waving your arms with unprompted hate staged in the style of condescending, smirky local-interest newspaper editorials with bite-sized paragraphing, at least make some sense. I get that you hate mutt. I don't care. But false reasons and extraordinarily sloppy logic for hating it just makes us all look like idiots for bothering to humor you, and setting us up like that is not polite, and such poor social grace ticks me off. > I used to get worked up about such things. > Then I realized that it really doesn't matter. > At all. Indeed, but from the feel of things you haven't actually convinced yourself. Bother. This is what I get for "say, I'm feeling chipper. Let's see what's happening over in hates-software!" -- -D. d...@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago
