From 37f562849e51fdc2a63b824dc91aaae8666aef3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wmorgan Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:13:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more tweaks. can't stop! git-svn-id: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/sup/trunk@46 5c8cc53c-5e98-4d25-b20a-d8db53a31250 --- doc/FAQ.txt | 12 ++++++------ doc/Philosophy.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------------ doc/TODO | 1 + 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/FAQ.txt b/doc/FAQ.txt index b981c0f..3912a2a 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ.txt +++ b/doc/FAQ.txt @@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ A: Sup is only possible through the hard work of Dave Balmain, the I started using Ferret when it was still slightly buggy, and it seemed like every week Dave released a bugfix or a speed - improvement that directly affected sup. Ferret has become a - first-class piece of software, and it's almost entirely due to him. - It amazes me just how much time and effort he has put into it. + improvement that directly affected sup. Ferret has become a + first-class piece of software, and it's due to the tremendous + amount of time and effort he's put in to it. Q: Why the console? A: As the millions (ok, hundreds) of mutt users will tell you, there are many advantages to the console: - - You don't need a bulky web browser. - - You can ssh and check your mail on another machine. + - You don't need web browser. - Instantaneous interaction. - - A few keystrokes are worth a hundred mouse clicks. + - A few keystrokes can accomplish the work of a hundred mouse + clicks. Q: If you love GMail so much, why not just use it? A: I hate using a mouse, and I hate ads, and I hate non-programmability. diff --git a/doc/Philosophy.txt b/doc/Philosophy.txt index 9f35a58..83067f6 100644 --- a/doc/Philosophy.txt +++ b/doc/Philosophy.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -Must an email client have a philosophy? I think so. For many people, -it is our primary means of communication. Something so important -should warrant a little thought. +Should an email client have a philosophy? I think so. For many people, +email is our primary means of communication. Something so important +ought to warrant a little thought. So here's Sup's philosophy. @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ Using "traditional" email clients today is increasingly problematic. Anyone who's on a high-traffic mailing list knows this. My ruby-talk folder is 350 megs and Mutt sits there for 60 seconds while it opens it. Keeping up with the all the new traffic is painful, even with -Mutt's excellent threading features, just because there's so much of -it. A single thread can span several pages. And Mutt is probably the -best email client out there in terms of threading and mailing list -support. +Mutt's excellent threading features, simply because there's so much of +it---a single thread can span several pages, and God help you if you +lag behind. And Mutt is probably the best email client out there in +terms of threading and mailing list support. The principle problem with traditional clients is that they place a high mental cost on the user for each incoming email, by forcing them @@ -29,15 +29,16 @@ to answer. As a long-time Mutt user, when I watched people use GMail, I saw them use email differently from how I had ever used it. I saw that making certain operations quantitatively easier (namely, search) resulted in -a qualitative difference in usage (and for the better!). I saw that -thread-centrism had many advantages over message-centrism. +a qualitative difference in usage. And I saw that thread-centrism had +many advantages over message-centrism, especially when volume was high. So, in many ways, I believe GMail has taken the right approach to handle both of the factors above, and much of the inspiration for Sup -was based on using GMail. Of course, I don't ultimately like using -GMail, which is why I created Sup in the first place. +was based on GMail. Ultimately, GMail wasn't right for me, which is +why the idea for Sup was born. -Sup is based on the following principles, which I learned from GMail: +Sup is based on the following principles, which I more or less stole +directly from GMail: - An immediately accessible and fast search capability over the entire email archive eliminates most of the need for folders, @@ -50,10 +51,8 @@ Sup is based on the following principles, which I learned from GMail: and its content deserve the same treatment in the vast majority of cases. -Sup is also based on many ideas from mutt (and Emacs and vi!), having -to do with the fantastic productivity of a console- and key-based -application, and the usefulness of multiple buffers, etc., and the -necessity of handling multiple email accounts, but these features form -less of the philosophy and more of the general usefulness of Sup. - +Sup is also based on many ideas from mutt and Emacs and vi, having to +do with the fantastic productivity of a console- and keyboard-based +application, the usefulness of multiple buffers, the necessity of +handling multiple email accounts, etc. diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index d24fc86..1126bc1 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +search for other messages from author in thread-view-mode forward attachments tab completion on labels, contacts within-buffer search -- 2.45.2