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Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You know what else I like about being back on my Acorn mailer? Decent
> > reformatting of quotes! :-)
>
> I get decent reformatting of quotes, in fact perfect and complete
> control of the way the text looks, by using VIM as an alternate editor
> in Pine. To reformat a paragraph is just 'gq}'
ctrl-F6 here. To reformat a paragraph, correctly whatever level of quoting is
involved. Another nice thing this editor does (Zap in ZapEmail mode) is
colour-code each quoting level, and also highlights when a line goes over the
max line length limit you set (if you have auto-wordwrap off).
> and there are related commands to reformat both larger and smaller blocks
> of text.
>
> > I'm well aware of PINE's feature set. In terms of functionality it's
> > pretty definitive, but its user interface *is* apalling and although I
> > *could* get used to it, I don't want to. :-)
>
> I have used Pine for all of the three years it has been since I came across
> to Linux from DOS/Windows and, to my taste, the user interface is quite
> good. I have tried quite a few other mailers but have found nothing I like
> nearly as well. I vastly prefer a key command interface to one based on
> clicking the mouse
Any decent GUI application allows keyboard shortcuts.
> it is so much faster and I prefer to work fast and be as productive as
> possible. In fact, one of my main reasons for coming over to Linux from
> DOS/Windows was to get back to the vastly greater productivity of the
> command line and text-based programs. I do use X, but except for my
> browser, X is primarily a platform for mounting as many xterms as I may
> require to use VIM and other text-based tools.
Well, we have the choice, which is why we use Linux. For my part, I *like* a
rich GUI environment - but I also want it to be elegant, fast, responsive and
reliable. I can't blame people coming from a Windows background for thinking
those are irreconcilable, but I know different. :-) KDE is the nearest yet,
but it's got a ways to go.
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Rachel
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