[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[John]

Brett Kirksey wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2004 at 04:34+0800, John wrote:
> 
> 
>>Do you think you could have a chat with mailsmith about wrapping text?
>>Thanks.
> 
> 
> I think it's a no win situation. By default Mailsmith does not put in _any_ line breaks.
> 
> If a mail client capable of flowed text receives a message without line breaks, it puts them where it wants them and usually botches quoted text. Also, some people have there own preferences set to how they want their text wrapped.
> 
> When I send mail without breaks, I have had people complain. When I send mail with breaks I have had people complain. So, it seems like a no win situation.
> 
> Brett

Internet standards mandate line breaks.

I had no problem reading yours, but your text in my reply was unwrapped 
in my composer.

Since Internet standards (there really is an RFC dealing with this) 
mandates line breaks I mostly simply chastise the abuser and offer no 
further help.


There really are enough users with well-formed questions that I feel 
inclined to answer in the time I'm willing too donate without straining 
over ill-formed or ill-phrased questions.

If you fire up xemacs you will find a choice of three or four email 
clients built right into it:-)