Comments on: Plain Text is a Design Pattern http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2008%2F05%2Fplain-text-is-a-design-pattern%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Plain+Text+is+a+Design+Pattern by Adrian Cooke Fri, 04 May 2012 10:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adrian http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2008%2F05%2Fplain-text-is-a-design-pattern%2F%23comment-4497&seed_title=Plain+Text+is+a+Design+Pattern#comment-4497 Adrian Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:36:44 +0000 http://ztoe.net/?p=138#comment-4497 <blockquote> <p>Can somebody make a mail client that works just like TextWrangler so you can have that kind of functionality without all the copy and pasting Barry?</p> </blockquote> <p>Nice timing! Scott Bynum told me this morning that you can compose mail in TextMate and send it to Mail.app. Turns out TextMate can be made to work as an external editor for Mail in OS X 10.4+ and you can switch quickly between them using key commands.[1] One thing though: it works using an input manager hack, meaning that it uses a process that was intended for one thing to accomplish something else.[2] So this functionality is not supported by Apple and the developer cannot provide the normal assurances.</p> <p>[1] http://blog.macromates.com/2006/textmate-tricks/<br /> [2] http://macjournals.com/news/inputmanagerhacks.html</p>

Can somebody make a mail client that works just like TextWrangler so you can have that kind of functionality without all the copy and pasting Barry?

Nice timing! Scott Bynum told me this morning that you can compose mail in TextMate and send it to Mail.app. Turns out TextMate can be made to work as an external editor for Mail in OS X 10.4+ and you can switch quickly between them using key commands.[1] One thing though: it works using an input manager hack, meaning that it uses a process that was intended for one thing to accomplish something else.[2] So this functionality is not supported by Apple and the developer cannot provide the normal assurances.

[1] http://blog.macromates.com/2006/textmate-tricks/
[2] http://macjournals.com/news/inputmanagerhacks.html

]]> By: Elena http://ztoe.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fztoe.net%2F2008%2F05%2Fplain-text-is-a-design-pattern%2F%23comment-4496&seed_title=Plain+Text+is+a+Design+Pattern#comment-4496 Elena Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:40:10 +0000 http://ztoe.net/?p=138#comment-4496 Okay so I am finally starting to understand why you do that. Can somebody make a mail client that works just like TextWrangler so you can have that kind of functionality without all the copy and pasting Barry? Oh wait, that's kind of like going back to the old way of reading email when we used to use Pine or vi or whatever and a lot of people just couldn't use email because they couldn't understand it (or even execute a simple series of steps that they didn't have to understand, they just had to do). So now we've progressed so far that all those people can use The Email and they can even use The Photoshop, but people like us (well, you) have to cut and paste like maniacs? Is this the world that the technologists (we?) have created, one where we can't even use tools that work perfectly well, because the organization doesn't think that's important, but our bosses can color-code and highlight the very detailed lists of tasks they email us? Okay so I am finally starting to understand why you do that. Can somebody make a mail client that works just like TextWrangler so you can have that kind of functionality without all the copy and pasting Barry? Oh wait, that’s kind of like going back to the old way of reading email when we used to use Pine or vi or whatever and a lot of people just couldn’t use email because they couldn’t understand it (or even execute a simple series of steps that they didn’t have to understand, they just had to do). So now we’ve progressed so far that all those people can use The Email and they can even use The Photoshop, but people like us (well, you) have to cut and paste like maniacs? Is this the world that the technologists (we?) have created, one where we can’t even use tools that work perfectly well, because the organization doesn’t think that’s important, but our bosses can color-code and highlight the very detailed lists of tasks they email us?

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