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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Does elm generate invisible screen updates?
Message-ID: <660@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 89 13:53:23 GMT
References: <5733@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <5733@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, by rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo):
> In article <507@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
> +I am just curious, does elm spontaneously generate some invisible
> +characters while you are waiting in the index menu?  -David-
> 
> Yes. The read for  user input times out every now and then so that elm
> can run through it's main loop and test for newly arrived mail.

In which case I have a bug report.  Elm 2.2 at PL10 does not report new
mail until after the user pushes a key.  It certainly does not read
new mail in as it arrives.  It would be real nice if it did that and
rang a bell to let me know it had done it.  That way my window would
flash each time new mail arrived.
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