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. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > Jeffrey Stedfast > > Evolution Hacker Ximian, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ximian.com > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
