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From: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron)
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Subject: Re: Rich Text and comp.sys.next
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Date: 5 Dec 90 01:10:40 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.045426.28457@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>In article <130125@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>>2.  It annoys me that everybody, including NeXT, is going out of their way to
>>improve the appearance of electronic communications, while sacrificing
>>user's editing habits.  I've been bitching about being unable to use Emacs
>>to create messages ever since I started using the machine, in 0.8 days.
>>Result from NeXT: none.  Result from me: I don't use NeXT Mail.  I have
>>MMDF installed instead of sendmail, and I use msg to read and write mail.
>>Msg respects users' preferences for various editors, while Mail sticks you
>>with the Text object.
>

While I agree with both of you (except for me, it's vi instead of emacs that
I want), I just wanted to make sure you were both aware of the KeyBindings
default of Mail.app.  From the online help for Mail.app (7.1, on Defaults):

	KeyBindings		Emacs-style key bindings in the Send window

This is a binary (YES/NO) default, which is NO by...default:-)

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