Re: [Pan-users] 2 Feature Requests

[Toby Inkster]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:25:42 +0200
Colin Leroy <address@hidden> wrote:

| On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:08:09 -0700 "Himanshu J. Gohel"
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
| Hi,
| 
| > > Quote-selected-text is a /standard/ mail/news feature.  As such, I
| > > don't think it qualifies as "hidden".
| >
| > "Standard?"  Outlook and Outlook Express don't do this, and as far as
| > as I remember Netscape does not either. 
| 
| Hehe, OE breaks almost any standard and lacks every useful feature. Real
| newsreaders like Agent, MacSoup, XNews, and many others do have this
| feature.

As do most mailers -- Eudora (Win32, Mac), Becky 2 (Win32), Sylpheed (Linux), 
Evolution (Linux).

I thought also that Netscape did this. Maybe not. It's been a while since I've 
used it for mail.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:08:09 -0700 "Himanshu J. Gohel"
<address@hidden> wrote:
: I've used Sun's mailtool, dtmail and
: some other curses based mail/news programs.

Well, of course *they* don't. You can't expect text-based clients to know what 
you've done with your mouse.

: *and* it is not documented.

Maybe it's not, but to most people it will be obvious. We don't need to 
document that you press Enter to start a new line for instance. This is 
expected behaviour.

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