Re:Mutt 1.7.0 released
by erikb on Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:56AM
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I'm not a mutt user, but I believe in the power of text. Look at your comment. It's a lot of text, and zero formatting. But still it's powerful at achieving what you want to achieve. I really don't see why you need that kind of html stuff or markdown, or inline attachments, etc.
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yeah to hell with those latex documents and word processors, behold the .txt file!
Re:Mutt 1.7.0 released
by jsrjenkins on Saturday August 20, 2016 @09:00AM
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But latex and word are usually for printing a document. For something that will later be printed, you would want some sort of control over the actual look as the appearance is a large part of what is being communicated. Printing is also much more expensive than sending electrons so you would expect a much more developed medium for this.
I have never printed an email in my life. The appearance of the text is not essential to what is being communicated. Here a certain consistency is more important that variety - or rather the variety comes through the vocabulary and written expressions, not the font shape.
The same could be said for IM clients or IRC. Except for a few minor tweaks such as html links there is no real need for text formatting in these mediums, and very few clients even make the effort to do this.