MRH> A.,
MRH> Regarding your message dated: 17 September 2000...
ACM>> I personally do like the free caret interface myself. Also, for me,
ACM>> TB!'s editor took some time to get accustomed to. It was a period of
ACM>> adjustment and giving and taking. The end result has been that the
ACM>> shortcomings for me do not exceed the good points. If TB! were to
ACM>> support an external editor, I would still use this one.
MRH> I would agree with this myself. I took a while to learn the
MRH> differences between the Windows standard editor functionality and
MRH> TB!'s functionality but the free caret interface is something I find I
MRH> take advantage of regularly simply because it allows me to easily lay
MRH> out my text in a clearer and more 'creative' way.
I have to chip in here. I've been using The Bat for most of the year
and the editor is the one thing about the program that I find
annoying. For my needs, I don't need advanced formatting - all I want
text to do is to fully word wrap at a fixed number of characters and
to insert a blank line when I hit Return, but the autoformat and word
wrap options still seem to do baffling things! Messages that are
heavily edited seem to require both endless selection and alt-L
keystrokes just to properly wrap.
I think it is a wonderful program and no doubt there are power users
who find the editor both powerful and useful but I did not buy it for
its editing functions and for me it is a major irritation. I have to
agree with a previous mail that it is a culture-shocker - I've used a
number of other email programs over the years and they all followed
similar principles for typing in text but The Bat seems to have a mind
of its own.
Taking a while to learn the editor functions is all very well if you
need them, but for someone like myself who only needs the most basic
of editing functions, it seems unnecessarily complicated. If it wasn't
for its account handling, server interrogation, sorting/filtering and
html handling (no pulling back of html content) I would be looking
elsewhere. What have the Romans ever done for us :) Then again, you
can't please everybody - perhaps the answer would be a configuration
switch to use the Bat editor or for it to operate in the style of,
say, Agent.
John Rainer
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