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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:07:55 EST
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- From: Brian Pearson <MAINT@IND.BITNET>
- Subject: F-key lines, etc.
- Lines: 24
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- >I'm planning on changing the default for key.lines to be 2 unless
- >someone seriously objects. That's because with the sorted ordering,
- >having only 1 line will only pickup keys 1 through 6, leaving out some
- >of the important things like scrolling and cancel.
- >
- >Of course, you can redefine things so scrolling appears in the first
- >six keys, but since people were used to having two lines in previous
- >versions, I felt this (unfortunately, non-CUA) default was worth
- >changing.
- >If someone has serious objections, please let me know ASAP.
- >I've also added code to allow previous and next to display deleted
- >items:
- >
- > NEXT (ANY
- > PREVIOUS (ANY
- >
- >I've also added code to allow people to refuse to see any CMS windows,
- >if
- >that really bothers them. A new CMS.WINDOWS option can be set to NO at
- >INITIAL time (or via the windows) to force using linemode style
- >question/answer dialogs.
-
- Bravo! As for non-CUA, standards are nice but sometimes they need to be
- revamped.
-