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Re: [ANNOUNCE] mutt 1.5.16 released



On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:50:12PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-06-16 14:00:20 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 07:44:11PM +0200, Vladimír Marek wrote:
> > > Writing shell wrappers is in unix so easy, why not just define &
> > > document mutt behavior and let mutt user to tune his editor to his needs
> > 
> > Because it requires that the user learn to write shell programs.  Just
> > because you can, doesn't mean everyone else should be able to or want
> > to learn.
> 
> Learning to write *simple* shell scripts is a lot easier than learning
> how to use vi.

So?  Just because you can, doesn't mean everyone else should be able
to or want to learn.

Why yes, I do believe I'm repeating myself...

One may have many reasons to learn to use vi, whereas one may have no
reason to learn to write shell scripts, or any other programming
language.  Programming should *NEVER, EVER, EVER* be a requirement to
make Mutt (or any other user application) behave sanely.

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