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. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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