Excerpts from Andrei Thorp's message of Tue Aug 18 15:07:28 -0700 2009:
> Excerpts from Carl Worth's message of Tue Aug 18 17:02:05 -0400 2009:
> >   Anyway, the current misfeature I'm hitting is that if I do postpone
> >   a draft, then return to edit it more, then postpone it again,
> >   etc. eventually when I send the message I'll have several
> >   partially-composed drafts in various states that I need to go and
> >   manually clean up. It seems like most email programs avoid this
> >   problem by removing the draft as soon as its selected for editing
> >   again, and I propose that sup do the same.
> 
> I think I agree there, and vaguely recall someone attempting to
> implement being able to switch buffers even when an external editor is
> in effect.

That would be nice. In the meantime, I have realized that I don't need
to actually postpone my messages to do what I want---I can just exit
the editor and then switch buffers from compose-mode/reply-mode. So
that at least avoids the multiple-drafts issue, (but still leaves the
I-lose-my-state-when-I-quit-the-editor issue).

> Anyway, impressive post there. You seem to really abuse your e-mail
> client and know what you're on about. Good stuff.

Thanks. I have had a lot of ideas cooking for years about what my
dream email-system would look like. I think the impressive bit is that
of the half-dozen programs I've used in the last decade, sup is the
first one to get me to write up a post like that. (All other programs
were so far away from what I wanted as to make it infeasible to fix
them incrementally.)

-Carl

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