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[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #212

From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:05:07 +0930

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:17:46 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

> Yeah, it's hard to say at this point whether we'll eventualy scrap the
> internal editor or work on gradual improvements -- the latter is more
> likely for obvious reasons, OTOH, MP himself did refer to the internal
> editor as 'crap'.

I think a full reconstruction may be necessary if it is to
work properly.

>  OTOOH, guys like Bastiaan say they do all their
> email editing with the IE and find it just fine.

Why the blue blazes are they bothering with Arachne at all if
they do all the hard stuff with Widnoze?

Or are they just playing with Arachne as a hobby, like those
people who restore a vintage car so they can drive it once a
month for the fun of it, but do all their serious travelling and
commuting in a late model fuel injected, computer controlled,
air-conditioned, automatic transmission vehicle.

> Me, I think it might
> be cool to just hard link and external editor into the code and thus
> bypass the internal editor all together.  Time will tell.

With the internal editor, you do get the To: CC: BCC: and other
fields at the top of the screen, when composing mail. I doubt
that these could be retained with an external editor.

OTOH, using the current message compose/modify screens, the
text editing area could be replaced by a button [Edit Text] which
would take you to the external editor.

Yes, I think that would work if the contents of the To: CC:
and other fields were to be saved in a temporary file while
the editor was being called, and rewritten on the return.

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[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #212

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