It may be that the only hope is that the Mail folks will add these features. I’m not drawing anything or applying gradients or moving shapes around-I should be able to set the mouse aside. I haven’t tried TypeIt4Me or TextExpander yet, though I probably will, to get 5 (editor-with-macros).īut that still leaves me clicking like crazy.Įmail is, or ought to be, a keyboard thing-it’s about reading and writing. (If the plugins work for you, then you’re lucky and I’m envious.) But there are plugins that are supposed to give me 1 and 2. I chalk this up to the fragility of the undocumented and unsupported Mail plugin system-I don’t fault the plugin developers. They don’t-I get hangs and run into deal-stopper bugs. I could also deal with Mail better if the various plugins worked reliably. I could get past some of this if there were still a scripts menu in Mail and I could assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts. Mailsmith is awesome in many ways, but it doesn’t do IMAP-and I’m using IMAP because of my iPhone. (Though I could be wrong.)Īnd GyazMail, Eudora, and pine don’t do all of these. Also, from a quick look, it appears that 1, 2, and 5 are not done in Thunderbird either. Thunderbird, of course, is so not-Mac-like that I can’t deal. I count it as doing 5-editor with macros-because you can use a real text editor with it.) (I could overlook the Terminal-ness of it if searching multiple mailboxes was easy. Mutt does 1, 2, 4, and 5-but not 3 and 6. Editor with macros (think BBEdit’s clippings, TextMate’s snippets, vim’s abbreviations). No clicking-or tabbing plus arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow-to go to a mailbox.ĥ. There are a few things I want in an email app that I can’t get in one package:ġ. I’ve managed to start using just one email client-Apple’s Mail app-and I like a lot of things about it.īut it drives me crazy, too, with all the clicking I have to do. Update 1:00 p.m.: This may happen only if you have the scrollbar setting for both-arrows-at-both-ends turned on, which I do. The scroll thumb doesn’t actually appear-in fact, the absence of the thumb indicates that the entire list is visible. If I had clicked in it, then typed down arrow a few times, I would have seen the rest of the cc list, and I would have known the Nicks were on the list.īut there’s nothing to indicate that there are more people on the cc list. Here’s the thing-in this fictional situation, I didn’t check the cc list. In real life I’m not some big email-gossip, so this hasn’t actually happened. Then I send it, and the Nicks get the email, and then the whirring blades disperse the waste into the atmosphere. I start typing, gossip gossip gossip, blah blah blah. So I’m like-cool, I can talk about the Nicks, since they’re not getting this email. The to and cc list look like this (only less fuzzy): Say I get an email, and I do a reply-all. Given that the first impression of the iPhone is so important, I can easily imagine a conversation like this:Ī: “We have to include Flash so it’s not the watered-down web.”ī: “We can’t, since Flash crashes all the time, and people will think the iPhone is crashy.”Ī: “But can we get away with not including Flash?”ī: “If we do a special YouTube app that uses QuickTime instead.”Ī: “That’s officer thinking, lieutenant. Since Apple collects crash logs too, they know how often Flash crashes. romedia.Flash ugin 0x094e8ddc native_ShockwaveFlash_TCallFrame + 344728Ġ. People do so, so I see the crashes.Īnd you know what I see a lot of? Stuff like this:Ġ. My app-which uses WebKit and, thus, supports Flash-includes a crash reporter: when it crashes, you can send the crash log to me just by clicking a button. I have a theory that I haven’t heard yet: Flash wasn’t included because it crashes so much. We all know that the iPhone doesn’t include Flash.
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