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- From: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Yet another enhancement suggestion...RETURN to confirm
- Message-ID: <C194wA.4A6@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:52:57 GMT
- Sender: news@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk (News Eater)
- Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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- There are several users at our site who don't like the way Elm only requires
- a single keypress (without RETURN to confirm) for its operations, often leading
- to chaos (we had to disable the "Edit mailbox" on our Elm, because people were
- typing "e", inserting a couple of characters by mistake into the mailbox,
- exiting the edit and then ending up with a corrupted mailbox - has anyone else
- noticed that Elm absolutely REFUSES to handle mailboxes with one or two
- characters extra at the front of the first line ??).
-
- Anyway, it would be nice for future Elm versions to be configurable as to
- whether there's a single keypress ("m" for mail etc.) or a keypress + RETURN
- (with the ability to overtype prior to pressing RETURN). Just a thought -
- anyone else out there agree with me ?
-
- Richard K. Lloyd,
- Computer Science Dept., JANET : rkl@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
- Liverpool University, Internet : rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk
- Merseyside, England, Q: "What's the world's fastest home micro ?"
- Great Britain. A: "The Archimedes A3000. 4 MIPS for under 800 pounds."
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