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- From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Yet another enhancement suggestion...RETURN to confirm
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:37:10 -0600
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- On 25 Jan 1993 12:57:32 GMT mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor) said:
- ]In article <C194wA.4A6@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk
- ](Richard Lloyd) writes:
- ]: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
- ]This sounds like a good idea, but after having had an "opportunity" to
- ]look at Elm source code recently, it looks like it'd be evil to implement!
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- May I suggest that this be put on the list for version 3, selectable
- via an option?
- What imho seems to be the matter here, is that one would like to
- enter ALL the parameters needed for a whole command in one shot,
- review the input, and only *then* give the final go-ahead.
- This is a totally different behaviour from what "elm" currently
- shows; prompts would become unnecessary. Thus less screen-changes
- and less distractions...
-
- Hmm.. I see something nice here; this makes it easy to implement:
- r)eply -i)nclude -n)ewsgroup -F)ile relevant-stuff <RETURN>
- or:
- r -inF relevant-stuff <RETURN>
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- Normally, replies *should* by default go to the address in the
- Reply-To:, Sender:, or From: field (in descending order of
- priority). But here one could override that with "-n" (for mail
- from a newsgroup), or "-s) for the sender address, or "-f" for the
- "From:" address.
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- Note btw that Elm v2.3 does *not* adhere to the above-mentioned
- priority re Reply-To:/Sender:/From: as specified in RFC-822.
- (Syd?) Is this also the case for v2.4?
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-
- Regards.
- $$\ F. Scott Ophof
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