Re: make mutt the `standard' mail reader
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:57:07 -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>If you use anything else, especially among Unix geeks, you deserve whatever
>you get.
Funny, I would have gussed that Unix Geeks would know how to set their
editors to use spaces in place of tabs and make it universal. Pardon mee
for obviously attributing more intelligence and common sense to the average
unix geek than you do.
>Windows mailreaders typically use proportionally-spaced fonts with about
>0.5-inch tabs, with the option of monospaced fonts and 8-character tabs.
What does Windows have to do anything? I did point out that that it
looked messed up in *JED* which is a character based program that originated
on 'nix.
>If you want to format a table for a Windows mailreader, you need to have
>columns less than 8 chars wide and use tabs to separate them, because spaces
>are randomly sized and tabs contain an unknown number of characters.
Not my reader. I use Fixed System, 9 point. Monospaced. I would not
presume to complain about screwed up tables in a perportional font.
>Meanwhile, if you want perfect-looking messages on technical mailing lists,
>keep with monospaced fonts and 8-char tabs.
And the sender should not be using tabs. If he didn't, then I'd've seen
the table just fine. In the meantime I am trying to fix my JED
configuration so it does replace tabs with spaces when it saves messages.
- --
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
- -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc
iQA/AwUBNqKdyXpf7K2LbpnFEQLtkwCghNlJoiyd1y4R6E2K2uzdxKsd8oQAoOIo
z4ud6ULb9OBPOD+SdO+7zZ1p
=U3JL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: