[OS X TeX] [OT] Mail & Top Posting
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri May 27 19:38:11 CEST 2005
On May 27, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 27 mai 05 à 15:57, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>
>
>> One thing I don't like is that Mail encourages top posting in
>> replies since the cursor is initially at the top of the page. I've
>> got my Signature at the bottom of the page, where I want it, but
>> I'd like the cursor to start just below the quoted text. Is there
>> a way for me to have Mail do that?
>>
>
> I thought there was an option in Mail to control that (top-posting
> or bottom-posting), but I can't find it any longer now.
>
Howdy,
There seems to be an option that determines whether the Signature
goes before or after the quoted text but even with my Signature after
the cursor starts before the quote. I guess I can live with it. Maybe
it will get me to look over the quote better; a bright side to the
problem.
> ...
> One more thing about Mail in Tiger: it uses a custom format for
> mailboxes, no longer the Unix format which was the norm up to and
> including Panther. Namely, you no longer have a single huge plain
> text "mbox" file inside a .mbox bundle, but a multitude of .emlx
> files, one per message. Which means, once your mailboxes will have
> been converted by Mail for use in Tiger, that you will lose the
> ability to migrate them afterwards to another mailer should you
> decide a switch. The mbox file at the time of the conversion will
> be kept, but none of the messages received afterwards will be added
> to it.
> ...
I know that and I thought I heard that there was an option somewhere
to Export the mailboxes and that would produce an .mbox file. I can't
find it now... but the last message on <http://
discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13 at 385.pb9gaso8YoL.0@.68b06d6a/1> is
not very encouraging.
> ...
>
>> There are a few other gripes, e.g., the Finder Find is crippled
>> since it is Spotlight based and won't look into ``hidden'' folders
>> like /bin/. I'm back to using Locator, which uses the locate
>> database (updated automatically by Macaroni every week), to do
>> those kinds of searches.
>>
>
> It's not absolutely necessary to do this:
>
> (missing instructions on how to do this)
> You're done. I find this extremely inconvenient, and I do hope
> that, at some point, a pref will be added to go back to good ole'
> Panther Find window.
> ...
You said it!
> ...
> - From the command line, using the "defaults" command. In Terminal,
> type
>
> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
>
> See <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/
> PortingUnix/additionalfeatures/chapter_10_section_7.html>.
>
> - Assuming you've installed Xcode, double-click on ~/Library/
> Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. This will open the file in
> Property List editor. Click on the Root triangle at the top left of
> the window, press the button "New Child", then enter
> AppleShowAllFiles, then Boolean, then Yes. I found this this
> morning in "OS X in a Nutshell" (extremely useful book, halfway
> between hard-core Mac OS and GUI on one hand, and hard-core Unix
> and CLI on the other hand), I can't wait for the Tiger version.
>
> After either way, when you log out then on, or simply relaunch the
> Finder, you'll see all normally invisible files and folders appear
> magically. However, as some have remarked on the OS X forums
> <http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@412.y0b1acwBYhi.6@.
> 68ade492/1>, all the icons, for either visible or invisible files,
> are dimmed (though effective). It's open to interpretation whether
> that's a bug or an intended behaviour, to discourage the user from
> activating the option (knowing that trashing some invisible
> directories can render the system completely unusable and
> irrecoverable, forcing a new install).
>
I thought about doing this but I don't really want to see all
the .xxx files too and the discussion you mention on the OS X Forum
seems to indicate that the side effects aren't good. I think once
someone finds what Tiger uses instead of the .hidden file a quick
piece of freeware will fix this problem.
So far when Tiger is good it's very, very good and when it's rotten...
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)
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