On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:42:49 -0800, Brent Simmons wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, John C. Welch wrote: >>>> 6) I could care less about external editors, and actually hate the >>>> concept. >>>> (Do YOU get gobs of email composed in Word? I do, and it sucks. It allll >>>> sucks. Bad idea. BAAAAAAD idea.) >>> >>> I don't think anyone's suggesting Word. BBEdit, yes. Word, no. >> >> You do realize that once you say 'external editor', your ability to control >> what that is goes to zero. Quickly. > > It would most likely be limited to apps that support a specific > Apple-events protocol. The list includes BBEdit, TextMate, a few > other text editors -- but not Word. So we do have at least some > control over this. > > -Brent >
Specifically, most people are probably thinking of the ODB editor suite. [0] I'd eat my hat if Word supports it... That said, the ability to use an external editor is a huge feature for power users - not everyone likes to edit text in the same way. I (along with other crazy people) vastly prefer modal (vi) editing, and external editor support is the way to get it (+all of emacs, textmate etc.) without having to re-implement the wheel. cheers, Adrian [0] http://www.barebones.com/support/develop/odbsuite.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
