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- From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: pager for small mail
- Keywords: 2.4 less
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 01:29:57 GMT
- Sender: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
- Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
- Lines: 23
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- I just wanted to indicate my support for adding a configuration option for 2.4
- with respect to the new behavior of using the built in pager for "short"
- messages.
-
- We configure elm to use less as the pager, and have many users whose only use
- of the system is for mail. For them to become sophisticated to notice that
- depending on the bottom line on their display they either have to type q or i
- depending on what they see will be a major challenge.
-
- Personally I receive 300-400 messages a day and therfore have devised rather
- efficient mail reading habits. One of these involve a well worn neural path
- that poises my fingers over the q, n, d and spacebar keys. To have to
- substitute i for q depending on the message length would certainly both slow
- me down and create more miskeys.
-
- Seems to me this would be an easy patch, and it would be very useful for many
- users.
-
- -phil
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- J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
- Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
- phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet (314) 362-3617 [362-2694(FAX)]
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