I would just hope that people would come away with the most important part of the debate portion of the model/view suggestion is that it could (fundamentally speaking) have a feature set to satisfy everyone. A mimic of the current editor with the added options some of us want (and would make the program more appealing to some potential customers).
I'd love a way to disable the free caret. I'd love to be able to toggle my view between fixed-pitch and variable-pitch fonts (I rarely need to use the font for making columnar alignment) etc... Using an external editor has many shortcomings in addition to the ones already mentioned. An integrated mail-centric interface is the primary one that comes to mind - I like having editable mail headers at the top of my mail editors. It not the easiest thing to do with an established program, but any suggestions I may have for the program, I do not intend to replace existing functionality. Having the program be its best for the greatest number of potential customers makes some sense to me. I like what the bat offers, but I cannot recommend it to many friends because of some of its _uniqueness_ :) Bruno -- Using The Bat! v1.62 Christmas Edition on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html