On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Ben Logan wrote: > > Yes, it doesn't have nice and point-and-clicky interface, but I don't like > > them, anyway. > > Like many of you on this list probably do, I get several hundred > messages a day (up to 600). I almost hyperventilate at the thought of > trying to navigate through them with a pointy-clicky interface. There > are some things that point-and-click GUIs are good for, but they are > usually (in my experience) far less efficient than an interface like > mutt's. Therefore, I consider mutt's interface another plus. :)
Yeah, it would be a pain to have to point and click around to [D]elete through several messages, for example! I do find the mouse to be useful in some cases though: If I want to go to a specific message on the screen, it would be easier to just click it with the mouse than figuring out how many times I have to hit the arrow keys to get there. Also, some GUI mail clients allow opening multiple windows to show more than one message at a time. That functionality is useful for when I want to compose a single reply to multiple messages, for example. (In mutt or pine, if I wanted to go look at another message while I'm already writing one, I'd have to postpone it, go look, and come back.)
