MDP>>> (it's only one additional keystroke after all.
TP>> Umm, it's 50% more typing.
TF> Wow, you time must be extremely valuable. ;-)
Hey, do it a thousand times. That's a thousand wasted keystrokes.
I'm not saying one stroke is bad, but over the course of a day, it'd
be nice to have things behave like you expect.
I'm getting used to The Bat!'s virtual space, I still don't like it.
I also don't like the annoying feature that sometimes, if you're on a
line with no text but not at the first column, hitting left-arrow will
sometimes move you up to the end of where ever the previous text is.
If they're going to do virtual space, left-arrow should NEVER go up.
It should only go LEFT, 'til it hits the edge of the window. Then it
goes no further. (BRIEF baby.)
TP>> Well, you two aren't typical Windows users. As it goes, virtual space
TP>> has some people who like it and others who don't.
TF> Right. That's why the idea about it being an option makes sense.
Ding!
TP>> However, to have the broadest appeal you have to appeal to the
TP>> broadest market.
TF> I don't think that TB has the ambition to appeal to the broadest
TF> market...
I didn't mean to imply that. However, the people in their target
audience are more likely than most of the sheep to have preferences
one way or another:
TF> TB is more for the "power user", people who expect more from their
TF> email client than just showing colourful HTML pages (sorry
TF> sarcasm).
Thankfully I have that turned off and just delete that crap (as I did
in Agent). Power users are going to know what they like, and not
stand for stuff that they don't.
TP>> In my memory, emacs does a fine job, is more configurable, and has
TP>> more features.
TF> Some people like vim, some people like WinEdt, some people emacs, and
TF> others even like TB's internal editor. :-)
Yep.
TP>> IOW, a checkbox sets "bAllowVirtualSpace" to "TRUE."
TF> I like this idea.
Thanks. ;)
If I can reconfigure the keys, I'll actually find this program
somewhat useful. Especially if I can get rid of the Quick Search. (If
I want to find something, hitting Alt-S is not too tough, nor is
Ctrl-F or F3 or Alt-I or Ctrl-S for that matter (who can name the
mappings and programs that use them? ;), but typically I don't want
"random" keystrokes to pop up interactive search).
I keep using, and I like, the reformat option, Alt-L. I'd still take
Emacs's version any day since it's way more powerful (it does hanging
indents if you wish, etc.), but I'd PREFER to not use an external
editor. Plus I've never managed to get Emacs to run on this PC.
TP>> To cross the beams, this is one reason why an external editor would be
TP>> so great; I could use one that does what I want it to do.
TF> I have never used emacs - what does it do (except for not having the
TF> free claret feature) that TB's editor doesn't?
(free claret == virtual space)?
(oh, free caret, I bet you meant! heh, oops)
I would imagine that you can turn that on in Emacs. You can configure
anything.
What else? Well, it has everything that TB has, but more of it. As I
mentioned above, the text reformatting is way more powerful, but at
the same time it can be trickier to use and it takes longer to set up
(not to mention, it's three keystrokes, esc-q-w, rather than just
alt-l)... It's a tradeoff that I would take. I also know the
keybindings, and you can do rectangle (column) mode on a keystroke,
and you don't have to switch blocktypes (I like BRIEF for this too).
There are more commands than one-hit keybindings, but you can change the
keybindings, and you can set up strings of them to do things. Can't
remember any of them off hand, but things like ^x-a-f-w-h might do
something that only you remember. ;)
-tom!
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