Re: What am I missing without mutt?
On 04/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <bscrivener42@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 12:00 pm, "Dotan Cohen" <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is
> > the full keyboard control,
>
>
> Which necessarily involves all of the advantages of using vim and all
> of the programmable aspects of Mutt.
>
> I used T-bird for years. Also used OOwriter and Word for years. But
> Vim (or Emacs, or whatever text editor you like) is a hundred times
> faster and more efficient than a point-and-click word processor,
> right?
>
Sure, for plain text OOo and Word are terrible tools. They are not
meant for that purpose. However, when you need markup such as that for
print documents, a word processor is a necessity.
> Same goes for Mutt vs. T-bird. Faster, totally programmable, and you
> get to compose emails in your favorite text editor.
>
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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