6/25/2005 1:27 PM Hi Alto,
On 6/25/2005 Alto Speckhardt wrote: AS> Hi Alex, >>> Indeed. RIT aparently thought that thousands and thousands of >>> editors were doing it all wrong and invented their own system. ASK>> No, thats not what I meant. AS> I understood you perfectly well. However, in this case precocious AS> remarks are not going to change anything: Thousands of editors have AS> established a certain way to handle things. One single editor uses AS> another method. Are you seriously suggesting that the thousands are AS> wrong and everyone speaking up against the weird system the lone one AS> is using are intolerant boneheads? AS> And, by the way: I am not even suggesting to just remove the current AS> non-standard behaviour. I'm suggesting to make it optional. ASK>> What you're saying would mean that the majority of TB users ASK>> backs up your wish. Is that the case? :-) AS> Apparently it is. On this list are very few people who have reported AS> that they explicitly like RIT's way, many who don't care and have AS> adjusted, and many again who do not like it. The majority is either AS> untouched by the problem (meaning they don't care much either way) or AS> in favour of the standard way of handling LFs. AS> And these are the people on a TheBat-dedicated list who are per se AS> more computer-literate than the average user, not to speak of AS> TheBat-seasoned veterans. We can expect the percentage of every-day AS> users that are confused by the RIT-way to be much higher. ASK>> What keeps you from using the windows editor? AS> It has none of the features I need for writing mail, e.g. no quote AS> handling to speak of and above all a proportional font. MicroEd comes AS> much closer to everyday needs and would be without a major hitch if AS> there wasn't the artificial hinderance of the LF handling. Hmm... This reply is written with the Windows editor using Courier New. Seems monospaced to me and I do not see a difference in quotes. -- Take Care, Paul The Bat! v.3.0.2.10 on Win2k SP4 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.31 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
