On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> > On 4 Apr, Rachel Greenham wrote:
> > >
> > > It's just crashed on me once too often while I was writing an email. This
> > > is 4.5 as comes with SuSE 6 by the way and is probably the least reliable
> > > piece of "production" software I have ever used. I'm almost tempted to
> > > use Outlook out of spite, but it really would be spite as I have a
> > > perfectly good email client here on my Acorn and I don't know why I ever
> > > stopped using it.
>
> You know what else I like about being back on my Acorn mailer? Decent
> reformatting of quotes! :-)
I get decent reformatting of quotes, in fact perfect and complete
control of the way the text looks, by using VIM as an alternate editor
in Pine. To reformat a paragraph is just 'gq}' and there are related
commands to reformat both larger and smaller blocks of text.
> I'm well aware of PINE's feature set. In terms of functionality it's pretty
> definitive, but its user interface *is* apalling and although I *could* get
> used to it, I don't want to. :-)
I have used Pine for all of the three years it has been since I came
across to Linux from DOS/Windows and, to my taste, the user interface
is quite good. I have tried quite a few other mailers but have found
nothing I like nearly as well. I vastly prefer a key command interface
to one based on clicking the mouse -- it is so much faster and I
prefer to work fast and be as productive as possible. In fact, one of
my main reasons for coming over to Linux from DOS/Windows was to get
back to the vastly greater productivity of the command line and
text-based programs. I do use X, but except for my browser, X is
primarily a platform for mounting as many xterms as I may require to
use VIM and other text-based tools.
Dwight
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