[2702] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: Two enhancement requests.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Oct 4 12:36:35 2010
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: bug-barnowl@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19DB2D16-62F8-44DE-9A08-87DF96DCA87A@mit.edu>
I don't think anyone ever replied to this...
At some point since barnowl gained the ability to do both of these. 2
appears to be by default (I assume a side effect of rewriting the
edit-window code in a better way), and 1 can be enabled and disabled with
:showdate and :hidedate respectively.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, William Cattey wrote:
> The more I use barnowl, the better I like it.
> I've started killing zwgc and using barnowl as a main zephyr client.
> Well done!
>
> There are two features I'd like to request that would make things a bit
> easier for me.
>
> 1. Include date and timestamp in message display.
>
> Something I can do with barnowl that's very hard to do with zwgc is, "Leave
> it running over the weekend, and catch up on important class traffic.
>
> Unfortunately, it's difficult to keep track of what messages came in on which
> day.
> Adding mm-dd-yyyy datestamp to the hh:mm timestamp on message displays
> would be very helpful. Or is this already an option I can turn on?
>
> 2. Allow the DOWN arrow key to go to an empty last line when composing a
> message.
>
> When composing a message I often hit newline, see an error in the line I just
> typed,
> correct it by hitting the UP arrow key, and then, because there is no text in
> the next line, hitting the DOWN arrow does nothing. I DID hit newline. I
> expect there would be a blank line in the message composition buffer, but I
> have to hit the right arrow key till the cows come home to continue what I
> was doing.
>
> Thanks very much for taking the old owl to the next level. I hope you can
> help me get these two enhancements that would even further improve the
> barnowl experience.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
