Re: Eudora Settings
Re: Eudora Settings
- Subject: Re: Eudora Settings
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:43:03 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a14
At 12:14 pm -0700 10/4/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
There's really no need to be personally abrasive, John. I'm sure that if I
were a Eudora user I too, as a moderately advanced AppleScripter, would
learn all that stuff. And I can see how useful it is, indeed. Nevertheless,
I do have to agree with John Welch when he berates it for being hidden and
difficult. ..... That you might have some "shortcuts" which work before the
AETE can be brought up to date - sure, that's great. But eventually it
should be up to date.
Let's get real.
1.
There are currently NINE HUNDRED AND TWELVE published Eudora settings
in "x-eudora-settings.txt", each accompanied by a (generally) clear
explanation of what it does, what values are permitted and the
default value.
2.
In addition to these there are other settings which are not meant to
be tampered with but which an expert can set at his peril.
3.
To query the settings list for any string or regular expression it
suffices to press a button on the Eudora toolbar, enter the search
pattern and get a list of settings whose description contain the
pattern.
<interval> I wonder if you were aware of 1, 2, 3 </interval>
4.
No other application in existence permits the user to configure so
many different preferences and until one knows Eudora very well one
is unaware of the limitless configurability of the application.
5.
If but one tenth of those 912 settings were to be brought into the
aete and given meaningful human language pointers, as Welch has
suggested, the dictionary would be already a mnemonic disaster.
6. Applications such as Mail.app and Entourage are contain within the
dictionary all possible scriptable elements and are able to do so
(albeit already horribly) I invite anyone who really thinks Eudora's
dictionary needs to be revised to incorporate all configurable
settings to send me a list of the human language equivalents for all
912 published Eudora settings and I will write a program to allow
users to configure Eudora in human language. Here's an example to
start you off:
tell app "Eudora"
set phrase to be spoken at the beginning of a quoted passage to "sez he"
end
or perhaps you'd like to be economical and use
set say before quoted to "sez he" ?
7. I think you may be beginning to see what I mean, but I recommend
you and other snipers have a look at x-eudora-settings and see what
is possible in Eudora before you tell us what ought to be possible.
JD
<x-eudora-setting:7813> Put in the To: field if a message has only Bcc:'s.
<x-eudora-setting:326> Eudora allows you to drop nicknames onto
nickname groups in the address book, adding the dropped nickname to
the group.
<x-eudora-setting:12> Last time (in seconds) Eudora scanned your
maildrop to see if it should do deletions.
<x-eudora-setting:7> Eudora will word-wrap outgoing messages.
<x-eudora-setting:234> Eudora will scan for <esc>$ and send the text
as iso-jp-2022.
<x-eudora-setting:267> Eudora treats reply-to with special semantics.
When unchecked, Reply-To is just a replacement for From:.
<x-eudora-setting:297> Eudora will maintain a history of recently clicked URLs.
<x-eudora-setting:7314> Eudora will make the backgrounds of windows this color.
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