Re: newbie install
Thank you for your help and comments. Just to recap i had wanted to
use a text editor to speed up answering emails and considered Mutt and
Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for sometime and liked the app. A text
email client seemed the answer but i wasn't that impressed by Mutt.
However, i'm not as knowledgeable as some and setting up Mutt was ok
but still involved quite a bit of work. I got it all working and did
appreciate your help.
Yesterday i came across a Thunderbird addon Muttador (still beta stage
- vi editor) and today came across a non-mozilla TB addon called
Exteditor...
http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2
some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of
the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose
emails. Should be of interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to
the mouse while editing emails.
james
2009/2/21 Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2009-02-21, Chris Bannister <mockingbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:55:00AM -0500, Noah Sheppard wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:44:45AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> > > [..]
>> > > Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :)
>> >
>> > We are computer geeks; pedantry is never off-track.
>> ^^^^^^^^^
>> No need for the hyphen; you are not splitting a word.
>
> Hyphens are not used only for splitting words; they are also used
> for joining words to form compounds, as when forming a single
> adjective as in "ten-foot pole" or "off-track pedantry". In the
> example above, however, since the modifier "off track" follows
> "pedantry", the correct usage is without the hyphen: pedantry is
> never off track.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
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