Hello John,
Monday, January 10, 2000, 11:05:18 PM, you wrote:
JS> On Monday 10 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
>> This is exactly my point. 3 people, 4 different opinions of editors. So
>> why do people insist on making editors inside applications part of the
>> application and forcing people to use them when they can just pass the text
>> off to the preferred editor and not have to worry about programming, in
>> essence, two different applications?
JS> Because, unlike UNIX, Windows has no established convention for
JS> plonking a file to temp, calling a user-defined editor to edit it,
JS> detecting (correctly, 100% of the time!) when the editor has exited,
JS> and reloading the edited file.
JS> John
You've got a point there.
An inconsistancy I hate is that AFAIK the bat has two editors, the
template editor is horrible. No window resize and control key only
cut-n-paste, having every %EV% on the context menu is a poor tradeoff.
I just wish The Bat!'s mail editor matched the windows paradigum (sp?)
by default, I suspect that it is the single biggest barrier that this
program has to gaining greater acceptance. Of 15 or so engineers at my
company who got introduced to this program there are only 4 left.
Several of them said stuff like 'lifes too short to learn another
bunch of Control key combo's', or 'the editor's the last straw'. And
we're all Unix support engineers, used to coping with stuff like vi,
emacs, etc.. It's not that we don't appreciate what is being
attempted, we just have to make hard choices about where to invest our
'geek knowledge'. And there you go, potential customers lost, although
they all agree that technically it's good.
Best regards, Owen
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