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- From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: More enhancements?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.171639.3227@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:16:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Dec29.171639.3227
- References: <9212290038.AA04210@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <9212290038.AA04210@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
-
- >More items for the wishlist (maybe already there for 3.x?):
-
- >These points actually mean implementing the concept of different
- >"screens", and maybe levels of screens. Like this example:
- >
- > Entry point
- > +-- Help screens
- > +-- Aliases (**)
- > | +-- Related Options
- > +-- List-of-Folders
-
- Please no! I hate mailers that give me a list of screens before
- showing me my mail. I think that mailers like pine handle mail this
- way, and thats fine for people who want it, but please I'd really prefer
- that elm be changed to act that way by default.
-
- > - Another thing is that the headers of an outgoing item are not
- > visible while writing the outgoing item. One needs to drop out
- > of edit mode to see the headers (and be very careful *not* to
- > accidentally hit RETURN, otherwise it will be sent off...), and
- > then re-invoke edit mode to continue. A key that allows one to
- > just "flip" to the headers screen and back is good enough
- > already. :-)
- > ("Pine" has the headers in a semi-protected area at the
- > beginning of the item being written, and so does RiceMAIL.)
- > An option to toggle between having the headers visible (or not)
- > in the item being written would be nice. In any case in
- > ".elmrc", but preferably also in the options screen.
-
- Good point. I like the idea of a key flip; perhaps someone could
- write an extension to put it in a seperate emacs buffer? It seems
- like this is best handled by the editor being able to grab at a file,
- rather than a keypress. What key will act the same in all editors?
-
- > - May I seriously suggest the implementation of a "command line"?
- > Where one can type in a whole (set of) command(s) withOUT the
- > screen being updated at every key-press? Where the commands
- > would be executed only after RETURN is hit, thus causing only
- > *one* screen-update.
-
- I like this, I'm not quite sure how to implement it. I often type
- 4d, and wish that message 4 would be deleted, instead of hearing about
- how there aren't that many messages. Perhaps a configurable list of
- which keys will be acted on at the end of a command? This does change
- the way I'd expect elm to act, so it might not be a hot idea.
-
- > - To go forwards or backwards n screens on the index, one needs
- > to either repeatedly hit the relevant cursor (and wait for the
- > screen updates), or type an item number. IMHO a cursor-key
- > preceded by a number should indicate how many screens to go
- > forwards or backwards.
-
- A number currently has elm expecting another number, or a return. If
- the ability to add a single character after the number were added,
- then this would let me type 4d or 7u, and let you type 3(down arrow).
- Comments on how this would work?
-
- > - At index level, it would be very handy to be able to see whether
- > an incoming item is personal mail, or from some discussion list.
- > Most items from ((ex)BITnet) discussion lists are distributed
- > with the "Sender:" field containing the name/address of that
- > discussion list.
- > For those people pulling netnews items into mail and reading/
- > replying there, the "Newsgroups:" header performs the same
- > function.
- > But "elm" as it stands doesn't make use of these headers, and
- > thus the user can't discriminate between the two, let alone sort
- > on such fields.
-
- Perhaps better would be an optional mode of operation where a message
- gets two lines:
-
- 6 Nov 10 Sam Finn (90) SUMMARY: Data Access Exception
- Sent to Sun Managers mail list (sun-managers@wherever)
- or Posted to comp.mail.elm
-
- > - BTW, being able to (temporarily) "exclude" from display (resp.
- > "include") on the index items conforming to some mask would be
- > handy too. Of course one would need a "display all" command to
- > restore the display to normal...
-
- How about extend the l)imit display command to understand one or both
- of:
-
- !from mark
- from !mark
-
- (the first makes more sense to me, but the second also has a degree of
- logic to it.)
-
- Adam
-
-
-
- Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
-
- What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig
- at all. How true that is.
-