Re: [Evolution] Request for additions/corrections in Evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

When forwarding chain mail, you should just Forward As Attachment, then there's no need to ever have to strip >'s from the message body.

Jeff

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 12:33, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
> My reason is because I'm lazy ...
>
> I don't know how many email clients allow an external editor, but it was
> one of the things I really appreciated in PMmail.  Consider how many of
> us forward humor that we receive to our friends (obviously a lot). 
> Being on both the receiving and forwarding side of the equation I can
> see that not many take the time to do something as conceptually simple
> as re-formatting these messages to get rid of all of the excess baggage
> (forwards, quoting, etc.).  And why should they?  It is time consuming
> to do so.  Here is where an external editor can make this process
> simpler which is, after all, something computers are supposed to do for
> us.  Simpler from a couple of perspectives:  first by giving the user
> something they are already familiar with and second by providing access
> to a tool already providing capabilities not native to the email client.
>
> So for the lazy (me),  the column delete operation of SlickEdit was just
> the trick for getting rid of many layers of quoting, making this task
> trivial and therefore worth doing.  It being difficult, I am now less
> likely to do it.
>
>   - Bruce
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:05, Not Zed wrote:
>     On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 23:24, Raider wrote:
>     > My fist complaint (or did I miss something?) is that I want to use
>     > another editor than the default.  How can this be done?
>     
>     It can't.
>     
>     You dont seem to have any real reasons why the editor is unusable
>     though.  Personally i'd like to use emacs, or even vi, but i can't
>     *shrug*, its still adequate.
>
>
>
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