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Re: What am I missing without mutt?



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On 02/04/08 18:15, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <g...@dmiyu.org> wrote:
>> It all depends on the work habits of the individual user.
> 
> Well, you can say that about anything, right? The OP asked what he was
> missing, so he's soliciting the opinions of people with different work
> habits.
> 
>> Just as while I am a vim devotee for programming Python
>> I most certainly would not use it for creating documents fit for
>> printing.
> 
> Well, to me Vim can do almost anything, so I'd rather use it for
> programming, emailing, and writing books. I'll grant you that to draft
> a one-page memo to a colleague it's probably easiest to use OO or
> Word, but in this day and age you're probably going to send an email
> anyway, and not a Word doc.
> 
> Trying to stick to the email topic, consider how much easier it is to
> grep the /Mail folder, or use Mutt's ~b search, instead of trying to
> figure out Thunderbird's clunky search interface.  To use just one
> example.

Clunky search interface?  To me, it's as simple an interface as
could be.  No RE, though.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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