On Thu 29-May-03 1:42am-0400, Allie Martin wrote:
> Bill McCarthy wrote:
>> It's disappointing the TB doesn't what the user wants.
> With specific regard to what you mentioned. Yes. Hopefully, the
> alternative editor that's in development will address the limitations of
> the current editor. The alternative editor already will lack advantages
> of the current. So it will be a matter of what features best suit your
> needs.
I'll delighted to hear that there's an alternative editor in
development. I haven't found any significant advantages in the
current one. I would, however, certainly miss using new mail and
reply macros - I'm sure they wouldn't take that away. If I press the
tab key, I want a hard tab. If I end a line with tabs or spaces, I
want them to remain. If I use two spaces separating sentences, I
don't want that changed.
> As a general statement, I'd have to disagree because I specifically use
> TB! because it's the client that most complies with what I want it to do
> for me. For example, read PGP Basics and you'll witness the gymnastics
> many users go through to get their signed messages to leave their
> clients without being altered. This is just not an issue with TB!. So
> there are advantages to its design. But clearly there are disadvantages
> as well, and hence not all will be pleased.
It still doesn't yet come close to the wonderful PGP handling of
PMMail. Not only was adding signed message as painless as TB, reading
signed email was far more useful. If the users public key was in my
ring, I would automagically see that it was signed by whom and when in
the status line and it displayed the message without the PGP
signature.
If it was PGP encrypted, I was asked for my password and, if
successful, it showed the mail decrypted with no decrypted message
saved to disk (and sig confirmation in the status line) - seamless.
It's a shame the authors sold out. I'm confident TB will mature to
handle PGP/GPG in a more intelligent manner.
>> Even the ALT-L fails to respect two spaces between sentences - I
>> need to copy/paste to a real editor and run a macro to fix things,
>> reformat and copy/paste back.
> The auto-format option will not remove the extra spaces.
Thanks! That's the option I should have set. That should save a few
trips to my editor. In PMMail, a single keystroke put me in my choice
of editors. Saving and exiting my editor put me back in PMMail with
all my editing in place (and unchanged) - this feature is sorely
missing from TB.
--
Best regards,
Bill
"If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?"
[Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist"]
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