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- From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
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- Subject: Re: Hasn't the message line bogosity gone on long enough?
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 04:45:10 GMT
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 26-Aug-92 Hasn't the message
- line bog.. Bill Cattey@ATHENA.MIT.E (436)
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- > Who else here is tired of having the contents of the message line
- > dissappear when their pathname happens to be one character too long?
-
- Probably everyone...
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 26-Aug-92 Hasn't the message
- line bog.. Bill Cattey@ATHENA.MIT.E (436)
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- > Isn't there some sensible way this can be fixed?
-
- Almost certainly.
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 26-Aug-92 Hasn't the message
- line bog.. Bill Cattey@ATHENA.MIT.E (436)
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- > making the message line fixed with fonts, un justified?
-
- Using non-justified text is a step in the right direction, but is not
- sufficient. I don't see the relevance of fixed vs variable width fonts.
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 26-Aug-92 Hasn't the message
- line bog.. Bill Cattey@ATHENA.MIT.E (436)
-
- > making the message line two lines tall so that people will get the idea
- > they really can scroll around in it?
-
- Certainly users should be able to have as many message line lines as
- they wish. Perhaps the default should be one line with a special
- scrolling icon to the left. Also some indication should be present if
- the latest message cannot be displayed in the available space. The
- message line area should be dynamically resizable in increments of 1
- line. It should also be possible to limit the number of previous
- messages kept, and/or total size of messages kept in the history.
-
- Even if multi-line message lines become standard, programmers should
- strive to insure that most messages are only one line long. If the
- message line has to have more than one line all the time it would
- represent quite a bit of wasted real estate.
-
- While we're at it how about history based completion for answers?
- (Keeping possible answer type completion as well of course.)
-
- -Rob Ryan
- Andrew Consortium
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