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- From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: pager for small mail
- Keywords: 2.4 less
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.154248.2248@wubios.wustl.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 15:42:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu> <BxBFu7.2FB@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
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- In article <BxBFu7.2FB@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- in response to an article I posted,
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- >In article <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
- >
- >An even easier patch might be to make the builtin pager prompt for q to
- >return to the index.
-
- well this helps for the very specific "quick fix" but less does much more,
- which is why we use it in the first place! For example we display a
- customized "help line" at the end, users use 'r' to redraw the screen when it
- has been "messed up" with new mail, the file can be "logged", a shell may be
- involked......By the time that you start adding all of these (and other)
- features you do not have an easy fix.
-
- -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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