[TxMt] Mail language scope

[Fred B]

On 10/26/06, s.ross <cwdinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Naive question: Why use stars when you can have italic and bold? I'd
> rather use TextMate, but would prefer not to give up my HTML mail. Is
> there some happy middle-ground I'm missing? (Or is Apple Mail the
> wrong tool for the job?)

A few reasons:

- Not everybody use Mail.app (e.g. I use Gmail webmail)
- Not everybody like html/rich text mails, some even have strong
feelings against html in mails. Plus, it's considered inappropriate on
a lot of newsgroup and mail lists.
- Some prefer typing in TM than in Mail