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- From: rob@zorro.cecer.army.mil (Rob Knauerhase)
- Subject: Re: Back out from the quit (y/n) ?
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- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
- References: <1992Dec9.091824.27043@irfu.se> <1992Dec14.022922.22902@rtsg.mot.com> <1ghumeEINNsvg@uni-erlangen.de> <Bz9E57.Du9@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:17:53 GMT
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- In <Bz9E57.Du9@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- >In article <1ghumeEINNsvg@uni-erlangen.de> horst@faui63.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Horst Luehrsen) writes:
- >>>I would like something like this too. Every once in a while I'll type "s" when
- >>>I meant "d" and the only way out without typing a valid name is the
- >>>"^\" (QUIT signal).
- >>No! Just type <backspace>, then <return>.
- >Yes, lots of places let you back out by making the address/subject/filename
- >or whatever blank. This should be better documented (perhaps it should
- >show below the prompt for beginning users), and a consistant method of
- >backing out from the other prompts should be added, especially for the
- >quit command.
-
- Well, that was I had been doing (backing up). I was hoping that someone
- would have a better method that that.
-
- I would definitely vote (if anyone's counting) for having something like
- ctrl-g (good precedent for this in Emacs and nn) as a "go back to menu" key.
-
- Rob
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- Rob Knauerhase [rob@amber.cecer.army.mil] Office of GRASS Integration
- Construction Engineering Research Labs, US Army Corps of Engineers
- "See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the
- money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it.
- Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs." -- Dave Barry
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