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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Rich Text and comp.sys.next
Message-ID: <350@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 4 Dec 90 18:58:27 GMT
References: <4196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <130125@gore.com>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <130125@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>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 agree with you about Emacs key bindings.

But NeXT Mail *does* support Emacs-style editing, which is almost as
good, and in many ways better, than full Emacs (unless it's the macros
and programmability and power that you're after, and not just the key
combinations that are hard-wired into your fingers).  In 1.0 it
required a cryptic preference to be set ("dwrite Mail KeyBindings
YES"), but in 2.0 it's right there in the Preferences panel (under
"expert" features).
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