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- From: ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller)
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- Subject: Re: Hasn't the message line bogosity gone on long enough?
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:36:36 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 26-Aug-92 Re: Hasn't the
- message line.. Robert Andrew Ryan (1674+0)
-
- > I actually believe one of the wins of ATK and Emacs (gnu and gosling)
- > over Macintosh Toolbox and Motif is the fact that they have a message
- > line. In the Mac and Motif model, you have to pop up a dialog box for
- > any transient message, obscuring part of a window most probably. When
- a message is purely informational this is a waste.
-
- Even when it isn't purely informational - this can be a waste and a
- nuisance - as information needed for answering a prompt could be
- obscured beneath the dialog box.
-
- Of course, it's largely a matter of tast - but that was what the
- DialogPriority preference option was supposed to take care of.
-
- Before the days of Andrew on the XR? tape - the message line used to be
- a scrollable view - and stored past messages up to a certain amount
- [10?, 20???] - this was great for Messages in which a series of messages
- were usually sent to the message-line in a flurry - and the only way you
- could find out what had happened was to enlarge the message-line and
- scroll back.
-
- --fish
-