interesting experiment.

Gregory Nowak greg at romualt.dhs.org
Mon May 20 23:51:10 EDT 2002


Does the S key always work for you? I've found that it only works on a few of Toby's messages.
Greg


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:11:56PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Ahh but quoting the relevant is much easier when all is quoted in
> reverse order.  Now that I'm replying to your's this way, I have to
> edit out the middle.  Fortuneately, emacs allows for easy editing such
> as this.  Yes, I'm usually lazy and probably most often push in my
> reply and then send it on its way.
> 
> I usually very much dislike having to go through the old stuff before
> getting to the good/current stuff.  But then mutt came along into my
> life and I can now hit the 'S' key to magically skip over the old and
> get to the new; if it is interspersed withother old text, then I can
> hit the 'S' key again and I skip up to the next block.  Sure makes
> mail reading much faster.  Mutt is the only e-mail client where I have
> found this feature.
> 
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:03:40AM +0100, Toby Fisher wrote:
> >...
> > 
> > Kerry,
> > 
> > This is, imho, but another symptom of what you have already spoken about.
> > I won't start a flame war here about the order of quoted and original
> > text, I've been there, there's no point, nobody will change my mind and I
> > expect the feeling's mutual for those who hold the opposing view.  All I
> > will say is that it seems that if the original text is at the top, there
> > seems to be a greater temptation to just hit send and let it go, no
> > editting of what's underneath, though of course this is not universal.
> 
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