I haven't followed the thread closely...so pardon me for asking this,
but can someone please tell me *why* again?
Email programs have enough problems with compatibility and following
standards without dragging non-standard editors into the foray.
This is my personal opinion, but I still think email should primarly
be an ASCII medium, with the ability to send attachments. HTML
formatting provided by newsletters is "okay", but I don't see a
personal need to create HTML email.
There is nothing I despise more, than to get an email from someone,
which is just an Attachment of a word file.
I then have to open up word (which on my system at work is sometimes
a problem, becuase I run Wincenter, a windows emulator on a Unix Box)
just to read an email message that says, in plain text, what could
have been written in the regular email. To me that is a waste of
time.
There also is the issue that not everyone will be able to read an
"edited" message, because believe it or not, not EVERYONE uses MS
Office products ;) Then some of your WSIWYG editing you were hoping
for, can get trashed by another programs translator.
Now, this becomes even more complicated if you are implying that TB!
(or another email) shouldn't just add an attachment, but should
interperet your editors intentions, and send an RFC compliant email.
That would be a nightmare I think...
If you really want to send something from an editor, doesn't MAPI
meet your needs?
Sorry if this has been rehashed...but I'm just catching up on the
thread! :)
At Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:51:07 +0800, you wrote:
>Hallo Steve,
>
>On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:19:50 -0800 GMT (12.01.2000, 01:19 +0800 GMT),
>Steve Lamb wrote:
>
>>> And you didn't answer the main my question: how will TB! know
that I'm
>>> done with editing new message with my favorite editor if I have
three
>>> more files open with it and don't want to close it?
>
>SL> Good question, one that I'm not prepared to answer since I
don't
>SL> particularly care for such beasts considering there is very
little need for
>SL> them in either the unix or windows environments. Because of
this I've never
>SL> investigated alternatives to just saving the bloody file and
exiting.
>
>Let's see. How would an TB with an external editor work?
>
>Suppose I reply to a message (like just now), I will still need the
>send/put in outbox/etc buttons. I will also still want the header
>information being transferred and editable.
>
>However, I want to type and edit my actual message in my editor of
>choice. The "main subwindow" of the editor would be replaced by that
>editor. TB will open an instance of it. Of course, I will have less
>screen space, but what the heck, I just love that editor's features
so
>much (presumably).
>
>When I'm finished replying, I will click on Put in Outbox, the text
>will be transferred to TB, and the instance of the external editor
>closed. The messages will be stored just the same way as now, the
>external editor would also not double as a viewer.
>
>I can also imagine that data be transferred from TB to the external
>editor unpon opening the instance, so the usage of macros (and
>RegExp's) will still be there.
>
>OTOH, if I do want to use TB's editor, I leave the configuration item
>"Use external editor" unchecked.
>
>How's this idea?
>
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>Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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