On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 andy at theasis.com wrote: > > Pine's awesome, but mutt's better. Given that I make that claim while > still primarily using pine (the intention is there, but the switching cost > needs to be handled at a convenient time), I'd like to say that I > recognize that the problem is not the fault of mutt designers; rather, > it's my own ingrained habits which need to be overcome by relearning or > accomodated by configuring the .rc file. The designers of mutt had a > bigger functionality set in mind, and were coming from different > backgrounds, so it's excusable for them to not give such high priority to > adopting pine interface features. > Regardless of "pine interface features", they made a *single keystroke* throw out all changes made in the current session, without confirmation, by default. This is *CRAPPY* UI design. I cannot justify taking the time to find out what other mistakes they have made when I have a perfectly usable alternative. I have used Netscape for mail in preference to mutt, because even though it is feature-poor, it at least doesn't make me start my session over on a single keystroke. Dan