The other day they “upgraded” our Lotus Notes to a “6.0 style”. Evidently I had been using a “4.x style” without upgrading it. Ok the new view looks more modern, but it’s slow. Even by Bloated Stoats standards it’s slow. About the only thing I like about it is that when you delete something, it actually goes away off the list instead of still being there but with an “X” beside it until you hit F9. The user interface still sucks like a really sucky thing.
One of the things I really hate about Lotus Notes is that it doesn’t just encourage “TOFU” (Top post Over, Full text Under), it makes it hard to NOT do it that way. I noticed an option on the “reply” button that says “Reply with Internet-Style History”. Dare I hope? Would this be a way to do trimmed quoted text with the reply text interspersed? Breathless with anticipation, I clicked it. And disappointedly, I exhaled. I ended up with the cursor at the top, followed by the reply to the reply to the reply, then the reply to the reply, then the reply, then the original text. And it was quoted with a single line of “>” quote marks, not multiple quote marks for the multiply replied to text.
Oh well. I still continue to expect miracles, I guess.
Strange. That worked for me in R6. Not always, not pretty but it worked sort-of.
I bet you cannot wait for the new feature of the R7 mail template: (quickly checking if this is public knowledge) flags that indicate if you replied to a message, auto-safe during writing a message and to top it off: threading.
Welcome to the 1990’s, Notes.
I’ve been lucky, and never had to use Notes for anything productive, but I’ve written several exporting classes that had to use VIM.
Luckily, I’ve managed to repress most of those memories.
Hey, no dissing vim on this blog! I use vim (or gvim) as my every day editor, both at home and at work, on Linux and Mac OS.