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The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support

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superboyac:
yes, but why can't they just fix it?-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 10:45 AM)
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In my case, I like that my client doesn't auto-format pasted blocks because there are plenty of times I don't want the pasted block formatted.
-skwire (January 31, 2011, 10:55 AM)
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I understand your preference.  I'm not saying one is better than the other.  But to refuse to make the editor behave like any normal Windows text editor seems odd.  Look, they've already added the automatic wrapping feature.  Obviously it's something they considered and decided to implement.  So why not just finish the job?  Why leave it half finished?  The questions is not "Is wrapping a good thing?".  The question is "If we're going to have automatic wrapping, shouldn't it work even when text is pasted in?  Or should it only work as you type?"

rjbull:
The actual Ritlabs forum:
This is the one on their website.  According to the rules, you can only say "positive" things about the Bat there.  Nothing else.  no bug reports, no support questions, nothing about beta.  Only "positive" remarks.-superboyac (January 30, 2011, 10:51 PM)
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Something close to that was the original basis for my public spat with Bartels Media over Phrase Express.  In both cases, the respective company's attitudes are strange and pointless - because both programs are very good to excellent of their type.  The companies should have broad enough shoulders to carry comments and criticism, especially when it isn't even hostile criticism.

rjbull:
If we're going to have automatic wrapping, shouldn't it work even when text is pasted in?  Or should it only work as you type?"-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 11:06 AM)
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I'd have thought it was a case of offering both "Paste" and "Paste Special" commands for without/with formatting.

superboyac:
It's nothing like that.  The problem simply is that the automatic wordwrap doesn't happen for pasted paragraphs because they missed that initially and now they just don't care to add it.  I've told them exactly how to do it and their response is:
I am sorry to say, but this is not a bug, it's a feature of MicroEd. Auto-Format works that way for years and we do not intend to change that...
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vizacc:
Some time ago, I decided to get a Mac and lose all those expensive Windows apps.

It took a while to migrate 50,000 email messages from a whole load of folders in TheBat, Outlook, ThunderBird and Outlook Express to Mac Mail. I'd say I lost maybe 5,000 emails or maybe 10,000 emails when I used Outlook Express and ThunderBird :(

Ever since I used MacMail:
- I got a working address-book that syncs with my iPad, iPhone, Google, Yahoo and LAN here. No more Windows Address book problems!
- I never lost a sync or contact for past 6 months
- Email backup: almost automatic...
- There's a script to do remove duplicates, remove attachments, tag folders
- Automatic syncing between iPhone, iPad
- never had to bother with those WinMail.dat or HTML spam or EXE attachments ever
- There's tagging, color tagging,
- Working to-do lists,
- Calendar that syncs with Google, Yahoo.
- automatic filing with intelligence
- brilliant search feature
- IMAP compatibility. I can use Exchange with MacMail too

I especially like Mail, To-do list, Reminders and Calendar API integration system-wide.  :-*

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