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to: Matt Munson
from: Stephen Haffly
date: 2005-12-06 06:18:00
subject: Re: Multimail and editor

-=> Matt Munson wrote to All <=-

Hello Matt,

 MM> I was thinking of an alternative way for me to have a message editor
 MM> for my win32 edition of Multimail. Is it possible to use an editor
 MM> like OpenOffice to load my temp files?

I am sure it is possible, but why would you want to?  OpenOffice is 
large and takes multiple seconds to load, even on a fast machine.  It is 
like using a tank to kill a fly.  It might get the job done, but a 
flyswatter is more suited to the task.  In the same manner, a simpler 
text editor is more suited to editing your messages.

I prefer a text editor that has keyboard commands.  I am using nano 
(linux) to edit this message.  My wife preferes olxed on her Windows 
setup as she is comfortable with the keyboard commands.

In any case, all you need to do is edit the mm.rc file to specify the 
editor of your choice.  If you were following an earlier thread, you may 
have seen that you might have problems if directory/file names have 
spaces or are longer than 8 characters.  Just watch out for that, and 
you shouldn't have any problems.

Regards,

Stephen

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