On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:50:34PM +0500, quasar@vsnl.net wrote:
``imbecile email client'' is a real pain when a reader does not have >the option to choose his own editor within the client ... in my case, for example, when sitting on my desktop I use mutt with vim, but at other times, I have to rely on the web interface to our mail server ... I >can do nothing about how the web interface behaves!
I just noticed that there is something really fishy about this particular paragraph. All the original newlines that were present in my message are no longer there ... hand-edit quotes?
I completely agree. The above was exactly the point I was trying to convey. But the unfortunate thing is you choose to comment on a sarcastic reply instead of the many "adjust your line length" "Get a smarter mail client" etc. etc. you see here. Linux is about choice -- or is that only a media mantra? The talk about 'rules' really pissed me off which resulted in more than necessary sarcasm. Sorry.
I kinda never had any rules in mind ... I thought this was ``discussion'' about The Right Thing (tm).
OT: Just discorvered something in vim ... pressed gq<down> at the start of the earlier para, and it correctly broke and indented it for me!
AFAIK Mutt & Emacs as well as Pine handle long lines well under GNU/Linux. Just a matter of settings. In windows Eudora, OE & Emacs do it too. So? Where does this place us? The only problem is when one uses web interfaces - but then the problem is far more complex with almost all webinterfaces having a different column width. So I suppose we can ignore it.
Aaah ... there goes gq<down> again! :-)
The problem is in two parts - quoting somebody else's mail, which I just discovered that vim can do very easily for me, and horizontal scrolling ... think of the column width that newspapers use instead continuing a line from edge to edge ... its about readability.
And of course, the problem with webmail access remains.
Sameer.