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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Yea, he already explained it to me. :-)

Jeff

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 00:49, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> Jeff,
>       I think you're misunderstanding what Bruce is saying.  He's talking
> about getting a really great but really messy email from someone and
> wanting to send it on.  He could just forward it "as-is" but it has all
> sorts of headers and ">"s in it.  It would be embarrassing to send email
> like that.  He can't even believe his friend would send him something in
> such bad shape!  He's just saying that the Evolution email editor isn't
> very helpful in these situations and that a real text processor like
> SlickEdit (or really, EMACS) would be better.
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:33, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 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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