GNOME and the way forward

Posted Aug 20, 2005 3:24 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Here is a fact you people might want to consider: Nobody actually *likes* the unix mail programs with their external editors. Their combined market share is perhaps 2%.

If you are talking about market share of all e-mail programs, you're probably right.

If you are talking about market share of all e-mail programs that run on UNIX, you are completely wrong. Evolution is the only UNIX-based e-mail program I can think of that does not support an external editor, and I'd be amazed if it has more than 25% market share among UNIX e-mail programs.

Posted Aug 25, 2005 9:16 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

I've been using email for decades now, and have been through a huge range of email programs: mailx, eudora, pine, elm, a variety of wonky BBS-based acess methods, whatever the mail was on our VMS systems, pegasus mail, yahoo mail, gmail, and I've pretty much always come back to elm, and more recently mutt. It's just better at getting the job done. Despite significant experience with all the others, I really quite like it.

And you know I'm editing this web form in gvim too. A feature the mozilla people have had requested since it started without ever being satisfied.

Thanks for calling me a nobody.

Posted Aug 25, 2005 13:03 UTC (Thu) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

There is not need to put this preference in Evolution.
There is already Prefered Application submenu in preferences. Default editor could be put there.