Hello Allie & almost all fellow TBUDL members,
Friday, January 21, 2000, 5:56:42 PM, Allie wrote in response to my saying:
>> That bugs must be fixed is a truism. If it's a bug, it must be fixed
>> or squashed, let live, industrialized or released in a field (if a
>> predator, pathogen or parasite of a pest). But it sounds like a design
>> choice though. What do Stef and Max say about it?
AM> It is a design choice but the bug Alex speaks of was definitely
AM> not intended. I was testing TB! once and wrote a note to myself. I
AM> filled in 'allie' in the to field and the auto-completion finished
AM> for me:
AM> "allie Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
You are right and I have noticed that. But - if you correct it, the
next time around it will do it the was it was done last. As you say,
it's auto completion, which sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't.
Even then, the autocompleted part stays selected so you can continue
typing and it will try another option. This is my interpretation of
what I see happening.
AM> That should never happen. The auto-completion is for legitimate
AM> addressing.
You mean from the address book? If so, just hit F8 and choose your
address(es).
AM> Now, I have been finding that TB! has some really nice
AM> and novel ideas but they tend to have loopholes that lead to bugs.
AM> This is a loophole in the feature, that needs to be addressed.
It's so full of features that I too would like to see them better
integrated. At least some of the principle developers are quite young,
so the lack of integration is both understandable and correctable. The
important thing to know I think is that these people are willing to
assimilate and be responsive to our concerns, and I have found that
to be true, before subscribing to TBUDL.
AM> The quote prefixing is novel as well and has loopholes in it. The
AM> editor does some neat things automatically but again has loopholes
AM> in these. I've been writing about them but they persist.
I sometimes am VERY unhappy with TB's taking certain keystrokes as
macros and sometimes the autocompletion thing seems to turn on during
composition. I hate that. But I slow to a crawl and get through it.
I'd rather turn it off though.
AM> The quote prefixing is novel as well and has loopholes in it. The
AM> editor does some neat things automatically but again has loopholes
AM> in these. I've been writing about them but they persist.
I especially like the multilingual spell checker because it's
noticeable but not obstructive - it let's you know but let's you work,
rather than second guess you.
The product is certainly good enough to be on the market, and rough
enough to be improved.
I have auto self bcc's on some folders but not the TBUDL folder. I
just typed in the first 2 letters of an email address to another
account and TB finished it for me. It never (or very rarely) fails. I
suppose it depends on the key combination, though.
DH
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