On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:13:06PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > In the latter half of several decades of software development, I took to > heart "Unix _is_ the IDE". Similarly, there's no need for mutt to do > more than be a good MUA, as perfectly good search capability pre-exists.
But you must see the flaw with this approach: It requires every user to make efforts to integrate their own solution for searching for their mail--a task that seems (to me) very obviously part of what any typical user would want to do, as part of handling their mail. As such, doesn't it make sense that the MUA have good searching capabilities built in? Doing so saves a MASSIVE amount of work, in man-hours. This is where the Unix Philosophy falls down, IMO. And don't get me wrong--I'm a fan. But no solution is the right solution for every problem. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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