On 29 December 2001 at 6:02 pm Avenarius wrote: > Hi Bat-fellows,
> need to brag about something: back in July I ventured to write a few > succinct lines of appreciation of The Bat! at CNET's www.download.com. > Tonight while casually browsing that server, I've noticed that the > review has been picked by CNET as representative for introducing The > Bat's features to potential new users. It's a good one! Further down the thread there's a few interesting comments (first in part): "The interface for composing messages is among the worst I've seen. The one in Pine (UNIX) is better, for crying out load. So if, say, you reply to a message, there's all kinds of configuration options, but no way to simply line-wrap the quoted text. Plus, if you have two paragaraphs without a filler carriage return between them, the autoformat jams them together. The autoformatter also seems to fill in spaces so when you key upward you don't cling to the flush left words. This proved to be incredibly annoying. And frustrating that there was no way to tweak the options to fix this (especially given how many other options could be changed). So I fled to PocoMail, and have been quite pleased." "The editor for composing messages is SO bad, that it ruins an otherwise very nice program." Although I don't agree with the comment about PocoMail it all comes back to the same point as before; because of the complexity of the options and the interactions between them the author is confused! That the editor is being rewritten is good. If one could embed inter alia TextPad, NotePad or UltraEdit into TB! for good measure ... how about an "editor plugin" like the "antivirus plugin"? :) Alastair -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
