Re: newbie install
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:56:47PM +0000, James Freer wrote:
> 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)
I tried to find muttador but came up with very little. Do you have a
link to it?
Brian.
> 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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