Why hating on editors? Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

I don't *care* what editor I use, as long as it's reasonable. This issue has nothing to do with editors. Whether you use Pico, EZedit, vi, Emacs, or TECO, there's no law that says the mail software can't reflow the text before passing it to the editor, the same way GUI mail software does be

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Devers wrote: | I used to get worked up about such things. | | Then I realized that it really doesn't matter. Then you're on the wrong list. ;) - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.racc

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: > Sorry, this hate fails. Focus on bugs and misdesng not "my feature is > the most important and must be in every piece of software". And in any event the whole thing is predicated on the idea that the tools I'm using are unable to wrap text, which is not the ca

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:43:54AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > Do you *want* more software in your life? > > I don't particularly care. Disk space is cheap. First law of software hatefulness: the amount of hatefulness in software has a minimum

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

* Chris Devers [2008-08-23 07:45]: > On the contrary, as long as they're round enough to get me > around, it's not worth thinking about. I don't care if they're > rubber, wood, or steel, as long as they'll carry me down the > road. If you travelled 300 miles on road every day you would have a ve

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Chris Devers [2008-08-23 07:05]: > > The strange point of view to me -- which I am aware of, but fail to > > see the benefits of -- is taking the purist Unix-ey "everything does > > one and only one thing, and you assemble the toolkit you want

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

* Chris Devers [2008-08-23 07:05]: > The strange point of view to me -- which I am aware of, but > fail to see the benefits of -- is taking the purist Unix-ey > "everything does one and only one thing, and you assemble the > toolkit you want" to absurd levels. Mutt does not, so I know not how thi

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Chris Devers [2008-08-22 18:45]: > > Surely punting with "not my problem" is itself hateful. > > You seriously want each application to come up with entirely new ways > of making text editing hateful? On the contrary, I like a bit of consist

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

* Chris Devers [2008-08-22 18:45]: > Surely punting with "not my problem" is itself hateful. You seriously want each application to come up with entirely new ways of making text editing hateful? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //