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- From: janw@fwi.uva.nl (Jan Wortelboer)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: pager for small mail
- Keywords: 2.4 less
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.105004.19650@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 10:50:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu>
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- phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
-
- >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.
- How about this:
-
- *** showmsg.c.dist Sat Oct 3 23:59:17 1992
- --- showmsg.c Wed Oct 28 10:59:55 1992
- ***************
- *** 157,165 ****
- if(current_header->encrypted)
- getkey(OFF);
-
- if(builtin=(first_word(pager,"builtin")||
- first_word(pager,"internal"))||
- ! lines < LINES - 3)
-
- start_builtin(lines);
-
- --- 169,179 ----
- if(current_header->encrypted)
- getkey(OFF);
-
- + /* If PromptAfter = OFF and Pager = External
- + you probably don't wan't builtin, with the I to Return to Index */
- if(builtin=(first_word(pager,"builtin")||
- first_word(pager,"internal"))||
- ! ( prompt_after_pager && lines < LINES - 3))
-
- start_builtin(lines);
-
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