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<p><font size="4"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear </font></font>Sébastien!</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 17.01.23 um 22:40 schrieb Sébastien
Hinderer:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:Y8cVuFckHk6T1gkt@om.localdomain">If
not too late I'd suggest switching to slightly more "mainstream"
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">tools, e.g. mutt and an editor like emacs or vim. </pre>
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<p>The attribution "mainstream" is quite perspective dependent. From
my perspective as Python/VueJS software developer "PyCharm" and
"Webstorm", "Firefox", "Thunderbird" are "mainstream" tools.</p>
<p>A Microsoft developer may insist that there is no such thing as
"VS-Code".</p>
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<p>My decision for "Alpine" above "Mutt" was simply: Get things
done. One of my best friends is a Mutt enthusiast. I called him.
Even he states - Mutt has to been understood and maintained. <br>
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<p>If it is the maintenance time of your own email it may be worth
the time. <br>
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<p>But not mine. Any contemporary emails system Thunderbird, etc.
you will set them up in no time.</p>
<p>So my deadline for the email client was: Anything that needs
longer than 5 Minutes to understand and setup is not worth the
time. And Alpine won.</p>
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<p>The decision for the editor was a bit harder. I am bread with
EMACS and utilize "jed" frequently. So "jed" was the option I
favoured firstly.</p>
But then I saw "micro" and liked its handling of "mainstream" key
bindings like "shift cursor" for marking and "CTRL C", "CTRL V". <br>
<p>As much as "micro" appealed to me as sigthed user it frustrated
my bro. "micro" is sadly programmed by the new generation of
programmers not knowing what they do. It seems that they flush the
complete screen on any key stroke, completely confusing brltty.
They may have never heard of a framebuffer. :-(<br>
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<p>For "Jed" there was no configuration option to silently save
files - which made the integration into "apline" cumbersome.</p>
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<p>So in the end I decided on "nano" which is a GNU (if you want to
say "maintstream") tool.</p>
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<p>I hope that ensures you that my decisions weren't by chance.</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Volker<br>
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