While I'm enjoying my evaluation of The Bat! and like it a lot, I'm
finding a few "issues" preventing me from enjoying it to it's fullest.
Rather than suffer through them I thought I could list them here and
get some help...
1) The message-editor doesn't work like any other I've used and it's
taking some time to get used to it.
a) For example, is it possible to automatically "reflow" after fixing a
line. For example, suppose I've read the line above beginning with
the "1", and decided I wanted to change message-editor to just
"editor" and "any other I've used" to "others". That causes the lines
to "reflow" in other editors I've used, including Eudora and Netscape
Mail. Do I need to edit it by hand to reflow it, or will it
automatically reflow as it's sent? If I need to reflow it myself, is
there something I can do to automate the process, or at least make it
easier?
b) The cursor doesn't move back to the left margin when it traverses a
blank line, the way it does in most Windows text editors. Therefore,
when I move down to the bottom to continue my message after seeing and
fixing a line above, I must reposition the cursor. A side-effect of
this appears to be that the "-- " sig delimeter is shortened to just
"--", as trailing blank spaces in lines appear to be truncated.
c) The ability to cursor down past the end of a new email is a bit
disconcerting, too.
2) I haven't figured out how to scroll through unread messages
properly and efficiently. For example:
a) When I first set up The Bat! I used 600 seconds as the time before
messages would appear as "read". I've since changed it to a
significantly lower number, but I can only make the change at the
highest level "account" and for posts already in my BatList folder,
they don't seem to change to "read" at all. Is this property applied
only when email is received?
b) Other programs I use (Eudora and Netscape) have a button I can
press which will automatically find (in Eudora's case) the next
message, or (in Netscape's case) the next unread message. The Bat!
doesn't seem to have either, and I've had to scroll through all the
messages by hand.
c) I haven't found a way to open up threads automaticallly by
scrolling through them, and the folder list-window doesn't scroll
automatically, so opening up all those "+" signs can take a long time.
Am I missing something or somethings here? Or is this something I
just need to get used to in order to use The Bat! ?
I like the program, but I find that at the moment, reading list email
with The Bat! takes significantly longer per message than reading
list-mail with Netscape.
Are there answers to my questions? Or do I just join the group
writing to the wish-list <smile>?
Thanks for any help.
Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED])
www.nobaloney.net
Services to and for Internet Professionals
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