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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
- Subject: Re: pager for small mail
- Message-ID: <BxD1CJ.21M@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:12:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu>
- Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois 60657
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- phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) wrote in
- <1992Nov5.012957.13923@wubios.wustl.edu>:
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- | 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.
-
- What's the problem? q works as well as i to get from Elm's prompt-after-pager
- to the index screen. So the question is not whether to use q and then i or i
- alone but whether to use qq or q. So on a longer letter, where one q doesn't
- get you back to the index screen, press q again.
-
- That should not be a major challenge for even the greenest user.
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