Hi there!
On 1 May 00, at 13:31, Eberhard Hafermalz wrote
about "Re[2]: TB! WishList":
> > Enable Auto-Format. When allied with Auto-Wrap, that's what it does.
>
> Nope, it doesn't. At least not the way it should. Try it. Type a line
> with less chars than the wrap limit. Press RETURN. Type something. Be
> annoyed. :-)
Press RETURN _twice_ and don't be annoyed;-)
> Additional remark after having read the "too robotic" thread: This
> behavior is hardly what it should be like. It is neither proper
> auto-wrap nor proper auto-format. :-(
And what? The Bat's editor is a bit spartan indeed, but the editor is by no
means the greatest priority for a MUA...
> > Use threading by reference with sort by time. That does the job
> > perfectly.
>
> Ah, thanks!! Another problem solved ... well, perhaps. If you take a look at the
> attached screen grab - shouldn't the Re2 be connected with the Re?
See above. If the message doesn't have properly set referencing header
fields, TB can do very little about it. Try threading by subject if you experience
these problems all the time.
> > I don't like this one. It reeks of mangling, is fraught with potential
> > hazards is is far more esoteric than is good for it as a concept.
> > Whenever I have had to do anything like this (and that's *extremely*
> > rare - 4 times maybe in 5 years?) I have done the merge by hand and
> > not begrudged it.
>
> Hmm. I have had a couple more occasions... but that's why I think
> optional is a good solution.
> BTW, right now here is such an occasion: Instead of replying to the
> arguments of each single person I would love to select all your
> replies, hit REPLY and go along editing and replying myself. :-)
Will be possible when ver.2 comes out (late May this year was the last
guesstimate for the first betas I've heard).
> Which brings up an idea... is there something like Rexx on this
> platform?
There exists Perl for win32. Take a look at www.perl.com. IMHO, Perl is more
powerful then Rexx used to be (yeah, I've been using Rexx quite extensively in
my own OS/2 days;-)).
> So that I can write my own little scripts, put them in a menu item of any
> program supporting this, and make the program do what my script says? Such a
> "merge" script should be done in no time flat, provided TB! supports the
> "merge" command.
TB ver. 2 is said to support scripting like this. Right now the only possibility of
extending TB a bit is using GNU regexps which TB already supports. If you're
unfamiliar with these possibilities, please take a look at the online help (English
version of it).
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