[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:24 PM, N. Miller wrote:

> On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
>> I may be a Luddite by I like the idea of email being simple.
>
> It's not the luddite aspect, it's the efficiency aspect.  I could
> handle 500+ emails a day on pine with no problem.

Very few people think about that kind of thing any more.  I still do  
a lot of email every day, though not nearly as much as I used to.

I can get it done pretty efficiently in Mail, so I'm OK with that.   
I've used so many systems over the years I've gotten so I can pick  
things up quickly.

At the same time, it has made me picky.

I really hate how poorly people use email these days.  I cannot stand  
top posting, especially for professional communication. I consider  
proper citation even more important at work than on a mailing list,  
and that's the very place the worst email habits seem to exist.

> With the modern preference for GUIs, trying to build a new curses
> based mail program that is architected this way would likely not gain
> much traction in the OSS world.

Probably true.

I find that Mail has enough things on the keyboard that I can use it  
for most of the day without using the mouse.

Maybe we'll get lucky and someone will write AquaMutt... :)

One pet peeve about Mail: if you are on a blank line, ^K won't delete  
the line.  If you are on a line with text or quoted text, it does.

Aiiiiieeeeeeeee!

Anyone know how to fix that?


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Shannon Hendrix
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