On 1/27/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/27/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wish that: > > > > 1) This newsletter came marked up with Markdown, and > > 2) My email program could handle Markdown. > > I wish that I could figure out what prompted this comment.
I can help! This newsletter is something that has something I want to read about every once in a while. But always the vast majority of it I don't. I've taken to the habit of quick-skimming the table of contents, trying to evaluate the contents based on it, and then searching down for that specific thing. I usually don't want to read about the new books, and I never want to hear about this or that conference. If the the entries in the table of contents were hyperlinked so that clicking on one of them dropped to an anchor point where that bit began, I could just click around and find what I wanted. As it is, I usually don't bother. Believe it or not, the hassle of hitting ctrl-f and typing in the title of the section is *just* a little too much for the worth I expect to get out of reading it. I'm already clicking around with the mouse. I hate having to switch from keyboard to mouse or back again. Maybe if I had a decent email program, going entirely keyboard would be okay. But if I had a decent email program it would support Markdown, or something similar, anyway. I used Pine for years, and I was glad to finally ditch it, honestly. Anyway. That's what prompted the comment. Structured text like the O'Reilly newsletter is an overripe candidate for Markdowning. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
