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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
- Subject: Re: "Reply to *typed* address"
- Message-ID: <C0rH11.C1o@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:58:13 GMT
- References: <9301080223.AA22606@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> <1993Jan10.011524.7527@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois 60657
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- spencer@ernie.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) wrote in
- <1993Jan10.011524.7527@Princeton.EDU>:
-
- | Why not do the same thing for To:? One extra carriage return for people
- | who don't want to change it, and easy access for people who do want to.
- |
- | I've always found it annoying to have to save the article and then
- | remember to go to the header screen. Especially if it's a long
- | response, by the time I ZZ out of vi, I've forgotten that I wanted to
- | change the header :-)
-
- I find it extremely annoying and don't see anything in it to type smileys
- about.
-
- | This would not require using any additional command keys and would be a
- | very minor change to the interface -- all you have to do is hit one
- | extra carriage return, and if you forget, nothing bad will happen, you
- | just have to hit carriage return again.
-
- Count me as another user in STRONG favor of such a change. I've stated so in
- previous posts. It's not only bad Reply-To: headers from mailing lists that
- direct replies back to the list (one bit me just yesterday) but also people
- whose return addresses are absolutely useless. I set up an alias with a
- valid return address for each such person but the r)eply command doesn't let
- me type it in. Instead I have to hold it in my head all throughout composi-
- tion of the response that I'll have to go to the header screen afterward.
- That is very bad design. There should, and I'll keep repeating this until
- it is implemented, be a way to get to the header screen before entering the
- editor; exiting the editor right away, fixing headers, and then returning to
- the editor is inefficient with CPU use and with my time and keystrokes.
-
- Allowing editing the To: line upon r)eply would go a long, long way toward
- that fix. Including headers in the editable text (as some versions of mailx
- do) would be even better, but I guess most site administrators would blanch
- at such a notion.
-
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