On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:05:36AM -0500, Christopher James Lahey wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 04:20, Mikael Wahlberg wrote: > > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 09:58, Mattias Eriksson wrote: > > > work in a way you have planed. This is not the correct way to look at > > > things, just keep it simple and let the user have it's freedom (and that > > > includes the freedom to get stuck in vim, if that what the user have > > > asked for...) > > It's a good point that one of the tenets of free software is choice. > However, anyone who is knowledgeable enough to want to use emacs or vi > here will be knowledgeable enough to figure out how to change a text > file somewhere or run a helper app. If you can find someone who isn't, > I'd be impressed.
My main reason for using evolution is the ability to sync contacts and calendars. I'd love to be able to use vim for advanced (and decent) text editing of email. I don't give a damn about html composition, which, imho is braindead for 99.999% of the uses, but as I understand a lot of people use it and like it, I can't complain about having an html editor. However, since I _never_ use the html features in any email I send, I would much rather be able to do :%s/.../.../g in the same application. Btw, after some finishing touches, I intend to release a perl script to help integrate evolution email folders with email text editors, such as mutt, which is great, but does not do imap, calendar and contacts as good as evolution does, besides being a terrific email client. > Yes, but they'll never be able to write an email again. Especially > since evolution settings would persist across uninstalling and > reinstalling evolution. They may even have to resort to creating a new > user or uninstalling and reinstalling the whole OS to get it to work > again. At the very least, they're going to have to call up their hacker > friend to fix it. And thus they will learn and become less ignorant. I say let'em err, so they can learn. Is that a problem? I don't believe in stupid users, just uninformed and ignorant users. The solution is not to make software stupid, but to enlighten and provide choice (not necessarily just of tools, but of ways of using tools). Cheers, rms
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