On 2010/01/25, at 21:30, holger e wrote:

>> We've talked about top-posting, HTML and other things people seem to
>> have strong opinions about, but we haven't discussed wrapping yet.
> 
> Please consider a rewrap function as in Entourage. When answering to
> other people's mails this is a very convenient feature. See this
> discussion by John Siracusa and others:
> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-talk/2003-September/096819.html
> 
> Might be something for a plugin, but only if plugins can have buttons
> in the composer window.


LOL, and look at the reply from cricket (apparently some kind of programmer or 
manager for Apple Mail), essentially telling Siracusa to take his feature and 
shove it, and without apparent irony including a wrap-mangled portion of the 
message he's replying to.

http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-talk/2003-September/096867.html

I think a rewrap feature would be cool, but it's also a good user story for the 
automation support. 

E.g., "John, as a meticulous communicator, wants to trigger a custom script 
that takes the textual content of his message compose window, processes it to 
re-wrap all of the mangled quoted text, and then replaces it, so that his 
recipients find his email more pleasant and convenient to read." 

I know what John *really* wants is for Letters to just do it for him, but I 
think it would be good to have a bunch of real-world examples of the kinds of 
things people want to do with scripts and plugins in Letters.

Then somebody else will want to convert quoted portions to lolspeak, and 
somebody will want to run drafts through babelfish and machine translate them 
to Swahili before sending, and gradually some of the commonalities between the 
things that people want to do will gradually emerge.





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