Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
- Subject: Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:24:00 -0500
On 03/20/2003 15:55, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At least part of the problem is the too-structured format that is required by
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Apple for dictionaries. There isn't room for the kind of comments that would
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be helpful. I don't think it would be possible for Qualcomm to add a URL for
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the secret web site to be presented in the dictionary.
Really...so then I don't see comments about some terms in the Eudora
dictionary?
This doesn't exist?
start notifying reference -- an application to notify
[when mail arrives/mail sent/will connect/has connected/has
manually filtered] -- what to notify the application of
If they can do that, then why can't they do that for setting, so that
instead of:
Class setting: Eudora's settings
Plural form:
settings
You would have
Class setting: Eudora's settings
Plural form:
settings --the x-eudora setting to use. A complete list is available
from
http://www.eudora.com/secretsquirrel.html
If they can do it for some entries in the dictionary, they can do it for all
of them. The question is, is AppleScript important enough for Qualcomm to go
beyond the bare minimum.
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That's also partly the reason it isn't obvious that you can loop through
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selected messages by moving used ones away. Dictionaries offer little unless
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one has some background in O-O thinking, and Stroustrup's book on C++ doesn't
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help at all. Man pages would be nice.
Why not create a 'comments suite' and have those entries be nothing but tips
and hints about some of the more confusing aspects of a dictionary? Why the
hell doesn't anyone do this? It's not rocket science.
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John's work is helpful. Most of us would be nowhere without it. But it's not
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his job to provide the definitive documentation. Apple ought to provide a
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dictionary format that encourages understanding for the rest of us and then
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Qualcomm ought to fill in the blanks. They are, after all, the only people who
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can answer the questions without guessing or experimentation. They have the
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source code!
John is a help, but then he has a total blind spot about Eudora and it's
dictionary. I find a lot of Eudora users have the same blind spot. It's an
email application, not a member of a family. If Qualcomm doesn't care enough
to fix what is so obviously wrong, why should I care enough to try and
script it?
For all the times I disagree with him, I give Cricket credit for two things:
1) He is trying to make things better
2) At least he cares enough to help out people having problems with 'his
dictionary'. I've seen more Microsoft people on this list. Why can't
Qualcomm have their Applescript people on this list, talking to people? JD
is not the end all and be all of AppleScript, no one person is.
john
--
"I have not yet begun to fight."
- John Paul Jones (aboard the Bon Homme Richard),Sept. 1779
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