Hello, the Bat! list recipients,
Friday, August 11, 2000, Steve Lamb wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about
Communication between mail clients and external editors:
SL> Oh, it is more than justifiable. I downloaded it and boy did the
SL> problems come flooding in. First off, default colors were
SL> completely unacceptable. When I changed them none of the context
SL> highlighting matched their basic lines to the defaults. BAD. Not
SL> to mention the default context highlighting colors were horrid in
SL> the first place. Half the things were unreadable. Dare I even
SL> mention that it had all of, what, 5 highlight types?
It's the matter of taste. I have changed just 2 colors and can read
everything easily.
SL> Failed to reflow a quoted paragraph.
It's not an editor to be built in MUA.
SL> MDI application. That is about 82 strikes against it right there.
Yes and it supports projects.
SL> Very few, if any, of the commands were accessible from the keyboard. When
Customizable. You can assign any command to a keystroke.
SL> Complete lack of Regex. Text editing without regex is unacceptable,
SL> completely.
Did I misunderstood? Regex is something different from regular
expressions? If not than you are wrong, UE has own regular expressions
format and supports standard with a switch.
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Best regards,
Oleg Zalyalov. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using The Bat! version 1.45
under Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6
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