On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:53:46 +0200, Rémi Pach [RP] graced us with
these comments:
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RP> Yes, that's what we get in 2002 with The Bat! Sad but true :-(
RP> The editor in TB is rather disatrous in many respects, but what
RP> some people, including myself, consider as poor design is
RP> generally seen as brillant by the members of this list,
RP> particularly those who like to design pretty little tables and
RP> indulge in useless ASCII art. Go figure...
There's more to TB!'s editor and its design than the advantages it
offers to create tables and view ASCII art. Your attitude towards this
whole thing is rather unaccommodating it would appear, and I think I'd
be really wasting my time to expand on this in a detailed fashion.
There are a lot of messages in the archive that deal with some of the
advantages anyway. With some explanation of what the editor will do
for you that others will not, I'm sure that you'd agree that the
editor is just different, that it has a useful design with drawbacks
that you cannot tolerate (no problem there), while the editors that
you're accustomed to have drawbacks that I and others can't tolerate.
TB!'s editor is NOT a disaster in design. It's just different and it's
really not a good thing to think something is trash or poorly designed
because it's different. Consider the fact that on many occasions, I
use TB!'s editor to edit text that's not intended for e-mail, just so
that I can use some of its features that aren't available in other
editors that I use. I'm not creating tables or ASCII art when I do
this. I also use PowerPro based macros that allow me to use TB!'s
editor with Forte' Agent, my news reader. It's TB! editor features
that allow me to be able to create those macros in the first place.
RP> I am afraid we'll have to live with that weird editor until such
RP> time as TB's developpers are struck by common sense.
I do hope that they'll either include an alternate editor or integrate
options in the current one that will produce standard behaviour and
its attendant limitations so that those who wish to use it can (it
would appear that the former approach is the planned one as with the
viewer approach). But I do hope that the editor will always maintain
its present functionality that is highly suited to *properly*
formatted plain text messaging.
RP> Fortunately TB has many redeeming features is is overall the best
RP> e-mail client around (with Becky a close second). I use TB in
RP> spite of its editor, not because of it.
The editor is one of the main reasons why I use it. It's one of the
unique things about TB! that makes it different from the others. It's
really nice to find something that's different and that has a
different approach with its attendant advantages.
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