Hello all, Monday, December 22, 2003, jwayne wrote: > Just upgraded to 2.0 and am definitely underwhelmed.
> First, I was quite surprised that bugs in the 1.x version reported over a year > ago haven't been addressed. > Here are two of 'em: > 1) Paste in any header field (e.g., To: or Subject:). Ctrl-V or right-click > paste works OK, Edit|Paste pastes the text into the message! You have right, but when and where did You reported this problem? > 2) Ctrl-shift-right arrow and Ctrl-shift-left arrow are standard key combos to > highlight words to copy or cut text. In The Bat, this works properly when in the > message area: Ctrl-shift-right arrow will select text word by word, > Ctrl-shift-left arrow will the undo the selection word by word. This is how ALL > Windows editors and dialog boxes behave, almost without exception. However, this > does not work properly in any The Bat message header field (To, Subject, etc); the > Ctrl-shift-left arrow keeps everything highlighted and puts the cursor at the > beginning of the field. I am not sure, if is possible to change this behaviour. > Were there ANY improvements in the editor? not in plain text editor AFAIK, but new Windows and HTML editors were added. > 1) You still can't reformat lots of text at time. Alt-L, for example places the > cursor at the beginning of the paragraph just formatted and one has to cursor > down to the next paragraph to do that one. If you highlight more than one > paragraph at a time, it will join them together and reformat so that doesn't > work. Paste Formatted doesn't work at all if the original text has indentations. > 2) There is undo but no redo. Something that is pretty much standard in any > decent editor these days. new HTML editor has Redo function implemented. > Window dressing on the message search and it's now more user-UNfriendly. > 1) It's a real pain in the butt to search over all accounts because you have to > scroll down, checking each account, rather than clicking a single checkbox. You can use right mouse button and select where You want to search. > 2) It still doesn't save the state of the last search (like Reg Ex). in menu "Edit | Use previous conditions" You can select last search conditions. > A Scheduler? TB is a GREAT email program, and that's where the focus should be. > There are much better schedulers out there and I haven't a clue why the authors > thought to include such functionality (apart from scheduling email related > tasks.) for scheduled sending, archiving, connecting to internet etc. -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.cz Using the best The Bat! 2.03.15 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 AMD ThunderBird 1,2 GHz, 512 MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
