[Users] Mail-editing in claws mail w/ external editor: remove dual-editing window

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 09:54:09 -0000
Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 16:36:50 +0100
> Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote: 
> 
> > A lot of people know this but choose to use Apply and OK to guard
> > against the software not doing as it has been told.  
> 
> Is that like some professional footballers doing a series of hops while
> walking onto the pitch at the start of the game, or wearing lucky underpants?
> I don't suppose they advise others to do the same.

No idea, don't do football.

There was a particular Windows program that had a habit of crashing
and not applying changes if you clicked OK, so people got into the habit
of using Apply first as a prophylactic. This was quite a long time ago,
but old habits die hard.

-- 

Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
                                                          Oscar Wilde