[OS X TeX] [OT] Mail & Top Posting

[Herbert Schulz]

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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